Sekirov Dictionary

buy off

verb 2
buy-off noun 1
forms 4

verb2

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To pay off, convince to refrain etc. by corrupt payment or other service.
- You like to hear about gold. A king filled his prison room As full as the room could hold To the top of his reach on the wall With every known shape of the stuff. ’Twas to buy himself off his doom. — 1936
To gain release for (a person) from military service by payment of money.

buy-off noun1

An act of, or method of, buying someone off; a bribe.

forms

bought off · buying off · buys off · buy-offs

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