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Definition: TO BUY OFF |
TO BUY OFF1. (a) To influence to compliance; to cause to bend or yield by some consideration; as, to buy off conscience. (b) To detach by a consideration given; as, to buy off one from a party. |
| Domain | Definition |
Finance | To pay a sum of money to someone in consideration of his relinquishing a right. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: TO BUY OFF |
| English words defined with "TO BUY OFF": Danegelt ♦ smart money, subscribe ♦ To buy out. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "TO BUY OFF": collateralized mortgage obligation ♦ Off of ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "TO BUY OFF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | at købe nogen ud (to buy out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | afkopen (ransom, redeem). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | racheter (to buy out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | abloesen (sloughing, to buy out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | εξαγοράζω (buy off, ransom, redeem, take over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pénzzel kielégít, pénzzel (to be flush of money), megvált (buy, commute, redeem, to redeem, to save), kivált (check out, ransom, redeem, to antedate, to check out, to create, to generate, to occasion, to precipitate, to provoke, to redeem, to take out, to trigger, to trigger sg off), kifizet (disburse, pay off, pay out, to clear off, to disburse, to discharge, to honor, to honour, to pay off, to pay out, to stump up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | riscattare (ransom, redeem). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | otay uybay offay resgatar (disenthral, emancipating, purge, ransom, redeem, rescue). (various references) rescatar (bring off, ransom, recover, redeem, rescue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-f-f-o-o-t-u-y" | |
-3 letters: boffo, booty, buffo, buffy, footy, outby, toffy. | |
-4 letters: boff, boot, bout, boyo, buff, buoy, foot, toby, toff, tofu, toyo, tuff. | |
-5 letters: boo, bot, boy, but, buy, fob, fou, foy, fub, off, oft, oot, out, too, toy, tub, yob, you. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F 42 55 59 4F 46 46 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01000010 01010101 01011001 00100000 01001111 01000110 01000110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   B U Y   O F F |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F 0042 0055 0059 004F 0046 0046 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)544923655592494040 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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