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TO BUY OUT

Definition: TO BUY OUT

TO BUY OUT

1. (a) To buy off, or detach from. --Shak. (b) To purchase the share or shares of in a stock, fund, or partnership, by which the seller is separated from the company, and the purchaser takes his place; as, A buys out B. (c) To purchase the entire stock in trade and the good will of a business.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definition: TO BUY OUT

DomainDefinition

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.

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Crosswords: TO BUY OUT

English words defined with "TO BUY OUT": To hearken out. (references)
Specialty definitions using "TO BUY OUT": Commodity Credit Corporation, connector conspiracy, cripplewareheatseeker, Homestead protectionMarket-pennyout of the moneyReal Programmers Don't Use PascalSaut Lairds o' Dunscore, Section 523 loansV.FC, VFC. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: TO BUY OUT

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

There is also a growing trend for foreign firms to buy out well-established Italian firms. (references)

Economic History

Austria

Any shareholder obtaining a controlling stake in a corporation (30% or more of all shares) is required to offer to buy out smaller shareholders at a defined "fair market" price. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TO BUY OUT

Language Translations for "TO BUY OUT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

at købe nogen ud (to buy off). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

afkopen (ransom, redeem). (various references)

   

French

  

racheter (to buy off). (various references)

   

German

  

abloesen (sloughing, to buy off). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εξαγοράζω (buy off, ransom, redeem, take over). (various references)

   

Italian

  

riscattare (ransom, redeem). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay uybay outay

   

Portuguese

  

resgatar (disenthral, emancipating, purge, ransom, redeem, rescue). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

rescatar (bring off, ransom, recover, redeem, rescue). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO BUY OUT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-o-o-t-t-u-u-y"

-2 letters: buyout, outbuy.

-3 letters: booty, butty, butut, outby.

-4 letters: boot, bott, bout, boyo, buoy, butt, otto, toby, toot, tout, toyo, tutu.

-5 letters: boo, bot, boy, but, buy, oot, out, too, tot, toy, tub, tut, yob, you.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TO BUY OUT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      42 55 59      4F 55 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01000010 01010101 01011001 00100000 01001111 01010101 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#66 &#85 &#89 &#32 &#79 &#85 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0042 0055 0059      004F 0055 0054

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

544923655592495554

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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