BUY OVER

  

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BUY OVER

Specialty Definition: BUY OVER

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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.

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Synonyms within Context: BUY OVER

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: BUY OVER

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Expression: BUY OVER

Expression using "BUY OVER": buy over the counter. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BUY OVER

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

buy over shotgun under

2

buy over shotgun under used

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BUY OVER

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

   

Romanian

  

mitui (bribe, buy, corrupt, gild, gratify, grease smb.'s palm, lubricate, nobble, oil smb.'s palms, palm, suborn). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

подкупать (corrupt, palm, suborn), переманивать на свою сторону (draw over). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sobornar (bribe, buy, get at, grease the palm, nobble, palm, Square, suborn, sweeten, touch). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

rüşvetle elde etmek (buy, buy off, fix). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

дати хабара (nobble, oil the wheels). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BUY OVER

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Expressions
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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