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BUY OUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does buy out mean?
• BUY OUT (verb)
The verb BUY OUT has 1 sense:
1. take over ownership of; of corporations and companies
Familiarity information: BUY OUT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Take over ownership of; of corporations and companies
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
Hypernyms (to "buy out" is one way to...):
buy; purchase (obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
The men buy out the chairs
Derivation:
buyout (acquisition of a company by purchasing a controlling percentage of its stock)
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