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Word Meanings - BUY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To acquire the ownership of by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to sell. Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt

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1. To acquire the ownership of by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to sell. Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries. B. Franklin. 2. To acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain. Buy the truth and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. Prov. xxiii. 23. To buy again. See Againbuy. Chaucer. -- To buy off. To influence to compliance; to cause to bend or yield by some consideration; as, to buy off conscience. To detach by a consideration given; as, to buy off one from a party. -- To buy out To buy off, or detach from. Shak. To purchase the share or shares of in a stock, fund, or partnership, by which the seller is separated from the company, and the purchaser takes his place; as, A buys out B. To purchase the entire stock in trade and the good will of a business. -- To buy in, to purchase stock in any fund or partnership. -- To buy on credit, to purchase, on a promise, in fact or in law, to make payment at a future day. -- To buy the refusal , to give a consideration for the right of purchasing, at a fixed price, at a future time.

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    The state of being involved.
  • REDEEM
    Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. Gal. iii. 13. 5. To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem
  • ATTRACTABILITY
    The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.
  • PLEDGERY
    A pledging; suretyship.
  • PLEDGE
    The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment;
  • ATTRACTILE
    Having power to attract.
  • VOUCHMENT
    A solemn assertion.
  • ADOPT
    1. To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc. ; esp. to take voluntarily to be in the place of, or as, one's own child. 2. To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve;
  • ATTRACTIVE
    1. Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies. Sir I. Newton. 2. Attracting or drawing by moral influence or pleasurable emotion; alluring; inviting; pleasing. "Attractive graces." Milton. "Attractive
  • VOUCHSAFEMENT
    The act of vouchsafing, or that which is vouchsafed; a gift or grant in condescension. Glanvill.
  • ATTRACTOR
    One who, or that which, attracts. Sir T. Browne
  • PLEDGEOR; PLEDGOR
    One who pledges, or delivers anything in pledge; a pledger; -- opposed to Ant: pledgee. Note: This word analogically requires the e after g, but the spelling pledgor is perhaps commoner.
  • EMPLOYER
    One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.
  • AGREER
    One who agrees.
  • UNDERTAKE
    1. To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt. To second, or oppose, or undertake The perilous attempt. Milton. 2. Specifically, to take upon one's self solemnly
  • UNDERTAKER
    1. One who undertakes; one who engages in any project or business. Beau. & Fl. 2. One who stipulates or covenants to perform any work for another; a contractor. To sign deputations for undertakes to furnish their proportions of saltpeter. Evelyn.
  • REDEEMER
    1. One who redeems. 2. Specifically, the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ.
  • ENGAGEDNESS
    The state of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal.
  • OCCUPY
    1. To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess. Woe occupieth the fine of our gladness. Chaucer. The better apartments were already occupied. W. Irving 2. To hold, or fill, the dimensions of; to take up the room or space
  • PLEDGELESS
    Having no pledge.
  • UNEMPLOYMENT
    Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
  • COMPROMISE
    promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both
  • DISAGREEABLENESS
    The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
  • REENGAGEMENT
    A renewed or repeated engagement.
  • UNPROMISE
    To revoke or annul, as a promise. Chapman.
  • REENLISTMENT
    A renewed enlistment.
  • AVOUCHMENT
    The act of avouching; positive declaration. Milton.
  • EXSTIPULATE
    Having no stipules. Martyn.
  • INTERPLEDGE
    To pledge mutually.
  • UNREDEEMED
    Not redeemed.
  • SHAGREEN; SHAGREENED
    Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen. (more info) 1. Made or covered with the leather called shagreen. "A shagreen case of lancets." T. Hook.
  • FOREVOUCHED
    Formerly vouched or avowed; affirmed in advance. Shak.
  • SAFE-PLEDGE
    A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time. Bracton.
  • AVOUCHABLE
    Capable of being avouched.
  • INSTIPULATE
    See EXSTIPULATE
  • SHAGREEN
    To chagrin.

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