| 词组 | buy |
| 释义 | buy [bought, bought, buying] buy in 1. buy in sth • buy sth in BrE to buy a large amount of something, especially food or drink, because you may need a lot for a special occasion or it may become difficult to obtain: ▪ We'd better buy in some more beer for the party. ▪ People are buying in stocks of food for the winter. 2. buy in sth • buy sth in • buy in BrE to pay someone else to do or produce something rather than doing it yourself: ▪ They don't actually make computers - they just buy in components and assemble them. ▪ More and more women are going out to work and buying in domestic help. buy into 1. buy into sth informal to completely accept an idea or belief and allow it to influence you: ▪ At around fourteen, a lot of boys buy into the idea that they are failures. ▪ You don't have to buy into the "If you have a bigger house, you have a better life," theory. 2. buy into sth to buy part of a business or organization, especially because you want to control it: ▪ British Airways' plans to buy into United Airlines have ended in failure. ▪ American car makers wanted to buy into Japanese firms. buy off buy off sb • buy sb off to pay someone money or give them something that they want, in order to stop them causing trouble or threatening you: ▪ In the US employers tried to buy off the unions by offering them higher and higher wage settlements. ▪ Chamberlain and Daladier believed they could buy Hitler off by letting him have Austria and Czechoslovakia. buy out 1. buy out sb/sth • buy sb/sth out to buy someone's share of a business or property that you previously owned together, so that you own all of it: ▪ In 1965, ICI bought out Courtaulds' share of BNS, and set up ICI Fibres. ▪ After the war, he bought out his brother Bill's interest in the machine shop. buyout n C when a group of people join together to buy a company, especially one they used to work for or manage a management buyout ▪ The company is threatening to close the mine, but there are rumours of a management buyout. 2. buy out sb • buy sb out to pay money so that someone can leave an organization such as the army, or a sports team, before their contract has finished: ▪ The first time he joined the army, his parents bought him out, and then he went and signed on again! +of ▪ The club wants to buy him out of his current contract with Inter Milan. buy up buy up sth • buy sth up to quickly buy as much as you can of something, especially because there is not a lot available, or because you think you can make money from it: ▪ People are buying up stocks of food in case the storm hits their area. ▪ Developers have been buying up villas on the island in anticipation of a tourist boom. |
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