Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - buy off
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Buy off
buy off
If you say that a person or organization buys off another person or group, you are criticizing the fact that they are giving them something such as money so that they will not complain or cause trouble. ...policies designed to buy off the working-class vote... In buying your children all these things, you are in a sense buying them off. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P c darkgreen]disapproval
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1.
transitive verb Date: 1629 1. to induce to refrain (as from prosecution) by a payment or other consideration 2. to free (as from military service) by payment ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
3.
1. давать отступного; откупаться (обыкн. от конкурента, претендента, шантажиста) 2. откупаться (от военной службы и т. п.) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
4.
{v.} To turn from duty or purpose by a gift. * /When the police threatened to stop the gambling business, the owner bought them off./ * /The Indians were going to burn the cabins, but the men bought them off with gifts./ Compare: PAY OFF. ...Английский словарь американских идиом
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