Definition of "buy off" []

• To pay off, convince to refrain etc. by corrupt payment or other service (verb)

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• "They were, I thought, the sort of aid one could buy off revolving-stand displays all over the world."
• "Since most cars are manufactured to order, there is no expanse of finished vehicles to buy off the lot and no sixty-or seventy-day stock of cars running up interest costs."
• "St. Clare was goodnatured and self-indulgent, and sought to buy off with presents and flatteries; and when Marie became mother to a beautiful daughter, he really felt awakened, for a time, to something like tenderness."