Synonyms of the word buy


BUYACQUIRE - BARGAIN - BE - BELIEVE - BRIBE - CORRUPT - GET - PAY - PURCHASE - STEAL

buy

  • v. (transitive) To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods.
  • v. (transitive) To obtain by some sacrifice.
  • v. (transitive) To bribe.
  • v. (transitive) To be equivalent to in value.
  • v. (transitive, informal) to accept as true; to believe.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a purchase or purchases, to treat (for a meal).
  • v. (poker slang, transitive) To make a bluff, usually a large one.
  • n. Something which is bought; a purchase.

acquire

  • v. (transitive) To get.
  • v. (transitive) To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
  • v. (medicine) To contract.
  • v. (computing) To sample signals and convert them into digital values.

bargain

  • n. An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself…
  • n. An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge.
  • n. An item (usually brand new) purchased for significantly less than the usual, or recommended, price; also…
  • n. The thing stipulated or purchased.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a bargain; to make a deal or contract for the exchange of property or services;…
  • v. (transitive) To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade.

be

  • v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
  • v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
  • v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
  • v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
  • v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
  • v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
  • v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
  • v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
  • v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
  • v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
  • v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
  • v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
  • v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

believe

  • v. (transitive) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing).
  • v. (transitive) To accept that someone is telling the truth.
  • v. (intransitive) To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.

bribe

  • n. Something (usually money) given in exchange for influence or as an inducement to dishonesty.
  • n. That which seduces; seduction; allurement.
  • v. (transitive) To give a bribe to; specifically, to ask a person to do something, usually against his/her…
  • v. (transitive) To gain by a bribe; to induce as by a bribe.

corrupt

  • adj. In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
  • adj. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
  • adj. In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
  • v. (transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave;…
  • v. (intransitive) To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
  • v. To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify.
  • v. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.

get

  • v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
  • v. (transitive) To receive.
  • v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
  • v. (copulative) To become.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
  • v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to do.
  • v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
  • v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
  • v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
  • v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
  • v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
  • v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
  • v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
  • v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
  • v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
  • v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
  • v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
  • v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
  • v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
  • v. (transitive) To getter.
  • v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
  • v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
  • v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
  • v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
  • v. (euphemistic) To kill.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
  • n. Offspring.
  • n. Lineage.
  • n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
  • n. Something gained.
  • n. (Britain, regional) A git.
  • n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

pay

  • v. (transitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due…
  • v. (transitive) To be profitable for.
  • v. (transitive) To give (something else than money).
  • v. (intransitive) To be profitable or worth the effort.
  • v. (intransitive) To discharge an obligation or debt.
  • v. (intransitive) To suffer consequences.
  • n. Money given in return for work; salary or wages.
  • adj. Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.
  • adj. Pertaining to or requiring payment.
  • v. (nautical, transitive) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a…

purchase

  • n. (obsolete) The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.).
  • n. An individual item one has purchased.
  • n. The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
  • n. That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession;…
  • n. That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
  • n. (uncountable) Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as…
  • n. The apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained and in nautical terminology…
  • n. (rock climbing, uncountable) The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.
  • n. (law, dated) Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by…
  • v. To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
  • v. To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.
  • v. To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
  • v. To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
  • v. To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply…
  • v. To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.
  • v. To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.

steal

  • v. (transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else.
  • v. (transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
  • v. (transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To acquire at a low price.
  • v. (transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding…
  • v. (intransitive) To move silently or secretly.
  • v. To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the…
  • v. (sports, transitive) To dispossess.
  • v. (humorous, transitive) To acquire; to get.
  • n. The act of stealing.
  • n. A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price.
  • n. (basketball, ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball…
  • n. (baseball) A stolen base.
  • n. (curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.
  • n. (computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written…

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