to pay a person or organization the rest of an amount of money that has been promised in a contract so that someone can leave or be forced to leave their job early
to pay money so that someone can leave an organization, especially the armed forces, before the time that they had originally agreed
to pay money to your business partner so that you can control all of a business you previously owned together
But the lawyers said he wants to buy out all Brian's holdings here in Australia.
He bought himself out of the army.
The other directors have offered to buy me out.
Would you be interested at all in letting me buy out your share of the business?
You can buy what you like and buy out of what you don't like.
`So you've set up some kind of company,' she began, calmly, `to buy out Arthur Young and control the Following.
buys out
buying out
bought out
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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