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buys 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/bī/,
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buying, present participle; bought, past participle; bought, past tense; buys, 3rd person singular present;
  1. Obtain in exchange for payment
    • - we had to find some money to buy a house
    • - he had been able to buy up hundreds of acres
    • - he bought me a new dress
    • - had no interest in buying into an entertainment company
  2. Pay someone to give up an ownership, interest, or share

  3. Procure the loyalty and support of (someone) by bribery
    • - here was a man who could not be bought
    • - I'll buy off the investigators
  4. Be a means of obtaining (something) through exchange or payment
    • - money can't buy happiness
  5. Get by sacrifice or great effort
    • - greatness is dearly bought
  6. Make a profession of purchasing goods for a store or firm

  7. Accept the truth of
    • - I am not prepared to buy the claim that the ends justify the means
    • - I hate to buy into stereotypes
  8. Used to say that someone has died
    • - his friends had bought it in the jungle
Noun
  1. A purchase
    • - the wine is a good buy at $3.49
  2. An act of purchasing something
    • - out on a produce buy for the restaurant
  1. "The Buys" is the third episode of the first season of the HBO original series, The Wire. The episode was written by David Simon from a story by David Simon & Ed Burns and was directed by Peter Medak. It originally aired on June 16, 2002.