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buy I. past. şi part. trec. bought verb A. tranzitiv

1. (of, from, at) a cumpăra, a face rost de, a-şi procura (de la);

(fam.) to buy on tick a cumpăra pe credit;

to buy for cash a cumpăra cu bani peşin / gheaţă;

to buy a pig in a poke a cumpăra ceva cu ochii închişi (fără a vedea marfa);

(fam.) to buy a white horse a arunca banii pe fereastră, a cheltui fără rost, a fi risipitor.

2. (fig.) a cumpăra, a corupe, a mitui, a câştiga (pe cineva) prin bani.

3. to buy back a răscumpăra;

to buy in a) a cumpăra (toată cantitatea), a acapara; b) a cumpăra într-o cantitate mai mare, a face provizii de; c) a răscumpăra (la o licitaţie);

(fig.) to buy off a cumpăra, a mitui;

to buy out a cumpăra (tot);

she could buy him out and out era mult mai bogată decât el;

(fig.) to buy over a cumpăra, a mitui;

to buy up a cumpăra (tot).

4. (amer. fam.) a accepta, a-şi însuşi (punctul de vedere al cuiva).

◊ (mil. sl.) to buy a packet a fi rănit.

buy I. past. şi part. trec. bought verb B. intranzitiv

a face cumpărături.

buy II. substantiv

(fam.) cumpărătură.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

He says that he will later on try to buy additional horses, so that we may be able to change them on the way.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

We leave Anvig with little grub, and travel light and fast. There are three fresh dogs bought in Anvig, and we travel very fast.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

Charles and Hal went out in the evening and bought six Outside dogs.

(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)

“I wanted to know,” I said, trembling, “if you would buy a jacket.”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

You may be doing business or buying property together—something may come up, and your ideas will be good ones.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

Having typed it out, he flung it under the table, for there had been nothing left from the five dollars with which to buy stamps.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

However, the king hoped still to save his dear child altogether from the threatened evil; so he ordered that all the spindles in the kingdom should be bought up and burnt.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Did I buy the geese off you?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Shortly after my marriage I had bought a connection in the Paddington district.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In every argument with her mother, Susan had in point of reason the advantage, and never was there any maternal tenderness to buy her off.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

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