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  • Royaume-Uni/[baɪ]/
  • Royaume-Uni/[bɑj]/
  • Canada/[baɪ]/
  • //baɪ//

To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods.

verbe

  1. 1

    To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods.

    Who'd Father buy the car for? He bought it for me, not for you.

    Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries.

  2. 2

    To obtain, especially by some sacrifice.

    I've bought material comfort by foregoing my dreams.

    You just bought yourself an assault charge!

    Buy the truth and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

  3. 3

    archaïqueTo suffer consequences for (something) through being deprived of something; to pay for (something one has done).

    VVhat villaine, doſt ſtrike me? I ſweare by the rood, As I am Iacke Strawe, thou ſhalt buy it with thy blood.

  4. 4

    To bribe.

    He tried to buy me with gifts, but I wouldn't give up my beliefs.

    After Bongino reiterated that Epstein killed himself, he was flooded with responses of disbelief. "WHO has bought the both of you?" one X user asked of Bongino and Patel, referencing the Fox News interview.

  5. 5

    To be equivalent to in value.

    The dollar doesn't buy as much as it used to.

  6. 6

    familierto accept as true; to believe

    I'm not going to buy your stupid excuses anymore!

    People like to say that dead people look asleep, and maybe she would have bought that under different circumstances.

  7. 7

    To make a purchase or purchases, to treat (for a drink, meal or gift)

    She buys for Federated.

    Let's go out for dinner. I'm buying.

  8. 8

    argotTo make a bluff, usually a large one.

    Smith tried to buy the pot on the river with a huge bluff.

Étymologie

From Middle English byen, from Old English bycġan (“to buy, pay for, acquire, redeem, ransom, procure, get done, sell”), from Proto-West Germanic *buggjan, from Proto-Germanic *bugjaną (“to buy”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūgʰ- (“to bend”), or from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewgʰ- (“to take away, deliver”). Cognate with Scots buy (“to buy, purchase”), obsolete Dutch beugen (“to buy”), Old Saxon buggian, buggean (“to buy”), Old Norse byggja (“to build, settle”), Gothic 𐌱𐌿𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (bugjan, “to buy”). The spelling with “u” is from the Southwest, while the pronunciation with /aɪ/ is from the East Midlands.

nom

  1. 1

    Something which is bought; a purchase.

    At only $30, the second-hand kitchen table was a great buy.

    PEARS ARE GOOD FRUIT BUY FOR QUICK, EASY DESSERTS

Formes

pluriel
buys
passé
bought
participe passé
bought, boughten
participe présent
buying
3ᵉ personne du singulier
buys
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).