"buy out" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: en-au-buy out.ogg [Australia] Forms: buys out [present, singular, third-person], buying out [participle, present], bought out [participle, past], bought out [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|buy<,,bought> out}} buy out (third-person singular simple present buys out, present participle buying out, simple past and past participle bought out)
  1. (transitive, idiomatic) to purchase the entire stock or extent of something Tags: idiomatic, transitive
    Sense id: en-buy_out-en-verb-Qv2c9UtG
  2. (transitive) to purchase the ownership of a company Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-buy_out-en-verb-jvBT5r3t
  3. To close someone's contract by paying him or her a sum of money, the terms of which are often stated in the contract itself.
    Sense id: en-buy_out-en-verb-wPIQImxM
  4. (transitive) To gain release for (a person) from military service by payment of money. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Economics Synonyms: buy off
    Sense id: en-buy_out-en-verb-1NKF36V2 Disambiguation of Economics: 8 6 5 82 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English links with manual fragments, English phrasal verbs with particle (out), English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 8 6 75 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 9 5 6 81 Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 11 9 8 72 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (out): 14 10 11 66 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 8 6 15 71
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: buy-out [noun], buyout [noun]

Inflected forms

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