Definition of "buy" []

• To acquire in exchange for money or its equivalent; purchase. See Regional Note at boughten. (verb-transitive)
• To be capable of purchasing: "Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy” ( Ogden Nash). (verb-transitive)
• To acquire by sacrifice, exchange, or trade: wanted to buy love with gifts. (verb-transitive)
• To bribe: tried to buy a judge. (verb-transitive)
• Informal To accept the truth or feasibility of: The officer didn't buy my lame excuse for speeding. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "If you haven't gotten ten to at least say they'll buy, where do you get your hubris to proclaim that thousands actually will buy?"
• "Whandall understood that the word buy was an insult."
• "He said media reports wrongly characterize what he called "buy and sell" shops as pawnshops in stories about police raids."