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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Buy Over (To). To induce one by a bribe to renounce his claim; to gain over by bribery. To buy over a person's head. To outbid another. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Purchase | Make a purchase, complete a purchase; buy over the counter. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | This includes prescription medicines and the medicines that you buy over the counter. (references) | |
Business | Of these, only 2% buy over the Internet. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "BUY OVER": buy over the counter. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
buy over shotgun under | 2 |
buy over shotgun under used | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BUY OVER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | подкупвам (bribe, buy, corrupt, disarm, fix up, get at, grease, hand out bribes, lubricate, suborn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | corrompre (buy), acheter (buy, buying, to buy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kaufen (bribe, buy, buy off, buying, cash, fix, purchase, purchasing, shop, take, take over, to buy, to cash), für sich gewinnen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | készpénzért vesz (to buy over the counter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sollaghey laue (bribe, bribing), molley lesh argid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uybay overay mitui (bribe, buy, corrupt, gild, gratify, grease smb.'s palm, lubricate, nobble, oil smb.'s palms, palm, suborn). (various references) подкупать (corrupt, palm, suborn), переманивать на свою сторону (draw over). (various references) sobornar (bribe, buy, get at, grease the palm, nobble, palm, Square, suborn, sweeten, touch). (various references) rüşvetle elde etmek (buy, buy off, fix). (various references) дати хабара (nobble, oil the wheels). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: overbuy. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-o-r-u-v-y" | |
-1 letter: voyeur. | |
-2 letters: bevor, buyer, rebuy. | |
-3 letters: bevy, bore, buoy, bury, byre, euro, obey, orby, over, oyer, robe, roue, rove, rube, ruby, verb, very, yore, your. | |
-4 letters: bey, boy, bro, bur, buy, bye, obe, orb, ore, our, reb, rev, rob, roe, rub, rue, rye, urb, voe, yob, you. | |
-5 letters: be, bo, by, er, oe, or, oy. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-o-r-u-v-y" | |
+1 letter: overbusy, overbuys. | |
+3 letters: overbuying. | |
+4 letters: obtrusively. | |
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| 1. Quotations: Non-fiction 2. Expressions 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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