to buy out
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3.5
- phrasal verb
- /baɪ aʊt/
:
comprar
- After years of negotiations, she finally decided to buy out her partner to gain full control of the business.
- buy out a company
Why don't you just buy out Amstrad and Fire Lord shop?
- Why don't you just buy out Amstrad and Fire Lord shop?
- Elon Musk has suggested buying out Silicon Valley Bank.
- So when Premier Results got bought out, he got his half of the money, right.
- After being bought out by Man Group, the three split up.
- And so, but it just, it took off and then Gaylord bought it out of bankruptcy.
- Question first, can you still not buy out the car at the end of your lease?
- So trying to with donations to buy out more and more of the land and then protect it.
- How long before those those companies get bought out by the people who want to control the narrative?
- I was able to buy out my two other partners and bring in new investment.
- And you know, there's probably other companies that would have been, but YouTube would have been massive, but Google bought them out smartly, you know, so they became part of.
- And then Telemundo was bought out by NBC and then we had to ties in the whole show up.
- And you know, the I, I can't say a whole lot about it, but essentially I had that same feeling that you had of OK, well, I could buy out his interest.
Examples
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But I was thinking I would buy out your share of this house and the New Orleans properties.
Fiction book (1995) -
Let's talk about Walgreens, which is going private, being bought out by this private equity firm, Sycamore Partners.
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After being bought out by Man Group, the three split up.
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Right now, she could buy him out and go to Paris if she wanted to.
Fiction book (1993) -
So when Premier Results got bought out, he got his half of the money, right.
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Smaller operations were less competitive and easier to buy out because they were located on smaller pieces of property.
Academic text (1992) -
Many smaller firms are already being bought out by the larger firms.
Academic text (1990) -
Which made it very easy for us to swoop in and buy out the company.
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Can't we buy him out or something?
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I am willing to buy out Senator Ward's interest in the revue.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To get something by paying money
222
3.8
Gain control of a company, organization, or government
46
4.1
To pay for and take almost all of something so one group controls it
Antonyms
How Complete
49
3.5
- Specialized
42
4.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
buy + out
The meaning is directly built from 'buy' (to acquire) combined with the particle 'out', which commonly signals completeness or buying someone/thing out; together they transparently convey purchasing something completely or purchasing someone's share to gain control. This is a regular phrasal-verb/compositional pattern in English, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would very likely infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Buy out comes from the simple image of one owner paying money to another so the other leaves the business: you buy them out by buying their part and taking full control. That's why it means 'to gain control' or 'full ownership' of a company today.