buy someone or something out
- buy someone or something out
buy someone or something out†
to purchase full ownership of something from someone or a group. •
We liked the company, so we borrowed a lot of money and bought it out.
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Carl bought out the owners of the company.
Dictionary of American idioms.
2013.
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out — I [[t]a͟ʊt[/t]] ADVERB USES ♦ (Out is often used with verbs of movement, such as walk and pull , and also in phrasal verbs such as give out and run out .) 1) ADV: ADV after v When something is in a particular place and you take it out, you remove … English dictionary