Definition of "buy-in" []

• Support; agreement; approval; blessing (in a secular sense). (noun)
• A tournament where a player must purchase all of his or her chips before the tournament starts. (noun)
• The amount that a player buys in for (noun)

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• "Friday's Morgan Stanley meeting was sponsored by Nomura Securities analyst Glenn Schorr, who wrote in a research report Tuesday that "a longer buy-in timeline for the remaining 49% of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney ... would allow for better capital flexibility to deal with Basel III.""
• "The success of any refinance push rests not only on whether policy makers can untangle a Gordian knot of technical hurdles, but also on whether they can get buy-in from private-sector players."
• "But, said Mr. Cameron of the commuter council, hiking fees can be a political issue, "particularly in an election year, and getting buy-in to build more parking lots during this economic climate is even harder.""