buy

1. (transitive, ditransitive) To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods.Examples: "Who'd Father buy the car for? He boughtit for me, not for you."; "Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries."Synonyms: cheap, purchaseditransitivetransitive

2. (transitive, ditransitive) To obtain, especially by some sacrifice.Examples: "I've bought material comfort by foregoing my dreams."; "You just bought yourself an assault charge!"; "Buy the truth and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding."ditransitivetransitive

3. (transitive, archaic) To suffer consequences for (something) through being deprived of something; to pay for (something one has done).Examples: "VVhat villaine, doſt ſtrike me? I ſweare by the rood, As I am Iacke Strawe, thou ſhalt buy it with thy blood."archaictransitive

4. (transitive) To bribe.Examples: "He tried to buy me with gifts, but I wouldn't give up my beliefs."; "After Bongino reiterated that Epstein killed himself, he was flooded with responses of disbelief. "WHO has bought the both of you?" one X user asked of Bongino and Patel, referencing the Fox News interview."transitive

5. (transitive) To be equivalent to in value.Examples: "The dollar doesn't buy as much as it used to."transitive

6. (transitive, informal) to accept as true; to believeExamples: "I'm not going to buy your stupid excuses anymore!"; "People like to say that dead people look asleep, and maybe she would have bought that under different circumstances."Synonyms: swallow, accept, believe, swallow, take oninformaltransitive