"buy-in" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: buy-ins [plural]
Etymology: Deverbal from buy in. Etymology templates: {{deverbal|en|buy in}} Deverbal from buy in Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} buy-in (countable and uncountable, plural buy-ins)
  1. Support; agreement; blessing (in a secular sense). Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: alignment, approval Translations (support): steun (Dutch), support [masculine] (French), aprobación [masculine] (Galician), Unterstützung [feminine] (German), suportilo (Ido), susținere [feminine] (Romanian), подде́ржка (poddéržka) [feminine] (Russian), soporte [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-buy-in-en-noun-cFOVUh15 Disambiguation of 'support': 90 10 0
  2. (poker) A tournament where a player must purchase all of his or her chips before the tournament starts. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-buy-in-en-noun-UyyXXL7v Categories (other): Poker Topics: card-games, poker
  3. (poker) The amount that a player buys in for Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-buy-in-en-noun-muwnb1mf Categories (other): Poker, English deverbals, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Ido translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English deverbals: 15 21 63 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 15 47 22 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 14 19 67 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 5 17 66 12 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 14 61 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 21 17 62 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 24 17 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 21 16 63 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 21 16 63 Disambiguation of Terms with Ido translations: 17 15 68 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 21 16 63 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 19 15 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 14 14 71 Topics: card-games, poker
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Coordinate_terms (poker tournament): rebuy, cash game, sit-and-go
Etymology number: 1 Disambiguation of 'poker tournament': 6 47 46

Noun [English]

Forms: buy-ins [plural]
Etymology: From buy + -in. Etymology templates: {{af|en|buy|-in|id2=protest}} buy + -in Head templates: {{en-noun}} buy-in (plural buy-ins)
  1. A protest in which participants buy an item and return it soon after in order to slow down the store's operations.
    Sense id: en-buy-in-en-noun-51eHNmvF Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -in (protest) Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -in (protest): 16 8 28 48
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-02 using wiktextract (6fdc867 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.