same as buy
to pay someone to stop threatening you or blackmailing you
By the time the public discovers that a product is defective, the company has made so much money it can afford to buy off the victims.
Efforts to buy her off have failed.
Every man has his price, and there were enough diamonds in there left over from the last Taiwan airlift to buy off even a madman.
I don't think there's anything he wouldn't buy off me now.
It's not difficult to buy off a magistrate or two... Where is he?
buys off
buying off
bought off
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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