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Buy In

Definition: Buy In

Buy In

Verb

1. 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.
 


Specialty Definition: Buy In

DomainDefinition

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.

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Synonym: Buy In

Synonym: stock (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Buy In

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Buy In

English words defined with "buy in": Regrate. (references)
Specialty definitions using "buy in": outsourcing. (references)

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Modern Usage: Buy In

DomainUsage

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

The Kind of Meat You Can't Buy in the Store (1994)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Buy In

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Expression: Buy In

Expression using "buy in": To buy in. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Buy In

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 in bulk

29

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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.

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Modern Translation: Buy In

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

   

Romanian

  

oferi un preţ mai mare decât concurenţii, achiziţiona (acquire, buy, collect, get, purchase, secure). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ประมูลสินค้า, ซื้อสำรองไว้, ซื้อหุ้น. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

satın almak (buy, get, invest in, purchase), satın alarak stoklamak, mezatta kendi malını satın almak. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Buy In

Misspellings

"Buy In" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: buyin. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Buy In

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.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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