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Definition: Buy In |
Buy InVerb1. Stock up on to keep for future use or sale; "let's stock coffee as long as prices are low". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Buy in (To). To collect stock by purchase; to withhold the sale of something offered at auction, because the bidding has not reached the "reserve price." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: Buy InSynonym: stock (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Barter | Speculate, give a sprat to catch a herring; buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest market, buy low and sell high; corner the market; rig the market, stag the market. |
Purchase | Verb: buy, purchase, invest in, procure; rent; (hire); repurchase, buy in. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Buy In |
| English words defined with "buy in": Regrate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "buy in": outsourcing. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's just that you've been so expensive to buy in the first place. (The Eagle Has Landed; writing credit: Jack Higgins; Tom Mankiewicz) | |
Lyrics | So don't buy in, (The Middle; performing artist: Jimmy Eat World) | |
Movie/TV Titles | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Saline nasal spray, which you can buy in a drug store, can give relief. (references) | |
Business | The fact that corporations normally buy in bulk has made branded computers the leader in sales. (references) | |
The imports from Egypt are competing with local production since they too are relatively low priced and geared to meet the demand of public hospitals and private clinics which usually group together to buy in bulk to utilize limited budgets for drugs. (references) | ||
Economic History | Haiti | As such, many local importers have noted that they cannot buy the US product unless they have resources to buy in bulk and repackage it in Haiti or elsewhere. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "buy in": To buy in. 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 in bulk | 29 |
buy in prescription usa without xanax | 4 |
buy in miami south townhouse | 3 |
buy in minnetonka moccasins nyc | 2 |
asset business buy in liquid need order will | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "buy in"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | накупвам, закупвам, изкупвам (atone, buy out, condone, expiate, make satisfaction for, purge, ransom, redeem, righten). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | at dækningskøbe (to buy in). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | buy-in procedure (to buy in). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ostaa sisään (to buy in). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | stocker. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | einkaufen (buy, purchase, shop, shopping, take over, to purchase, to shop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | visszavásárol (redeem, to buy in, to redeem), nagyobb tételben beszerez (to buy in), nagyobb mennyiségben beszerez (to buy in), készleteket halmoz fel (to buy in). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | acquistare (acquire, buy, gain, get, obtain, purchase, take). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 買い入れる (to buy in, to purchase), 込みで買う (to buy in bulk, to buy the whole lot), 先買い (buy in advance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | さきがい (buy in advance), かいいれる (to buy in, to purchase), "みでかう (to buy in bulk, to buy the whole lot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | kionnaghey (booking, buy, buying, patronize, purchase, purchasing), cur stiagh (bring home, drop, embody, embrace, enclose, harvest, house, input, insert, insertion, install, installation, interject, interruption, intervention, lay up, pass, put in, return). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uybay inay oferi un preţ mai mare decât concurenţii, achiziţiona (acquire, buy, collect, get, purchase, secure). (various references) ประมูลสินค้า, ซื้อสำรองไว้, ซื้อหุ้น. (various references) satın almak (buy, get, invest in, purchase), satın alarak stoklamak, mezatta kendi malını satın almak. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Buy In" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: buyin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-n-u-y" | |
-1 letter: inby. | |
-2 letters: bin, bun, buy, nib, nub, yin. | |
-3 letters: bi, by, in, nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-i-n-u-y" | |
+1 letter: buying. | |
+2 letters: buoying, burying, busying, butyrin, rubying. | |
+3 letters: bouncily, buddying, bullying, bunchily, butyrins, nubility, rebuying, urbanity. | |
+4 letters: bumpkinly, burningly, buttinsky, inaudibly, incurably, insolubly, nonbuying, numbingly, outbuying, reburying, subwaying. | |
+5 letters: biannually, bimanually, binaurally, blurringly, blushingly, bouncingly, brutifying, bumblingly, bunglingly, buoyancies, bustlingly, butylating, butylation, doubtingly, ebulliency, fumblingly, humblingly, inarguably, incubatory, incumbency, invaluably, jubilantly, lullabying, nebulosity, overbuying, purblindly, tunability, undeniably, unsociably, unsuitably. | |
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