buy in verb 5buy-in noun 4forms 4 verb5 •To stock (something) by buying inventory from a third party.They buy in coffee beans from a distributor in Carrolton. •To accept an idea as valid; to join in on a concept. •To invest as part of a group; to put one's personal stake in an investment. •To buy back for the owner at an auction. •For the buyer of securities, whose seller fails to deliver the securities contracted for, to buy the securities from a third party and demand the difference in price from the original seller. buy-in noun4 •Support; agreement; blessing (in a secular sense).To win, I need to get buy-in from the team to have alignment with our mission.Let's show the idea around and get buy-in from marketing. •The amount that a player buys in forWhen tournament players are eliminated but remain eager to win back their buy-in, side games often develop and upstage tournament play with limits exceeding those in the tournament. — 1983 •A tournament where a player must purchase all of his or her chips before the tournament starts. •A protest in which participants buy an item and return it soon after in order to slow down the store's operations. formsbought in · buying in · buys in · buy-ins