The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - buy v.

1) purchase; acquire, obtain, get, procure, gain, come by, secure: Where did you buy that hat? 2 accept, allow, take, believe, swallow, go for: Did you buy his story about having his car stolen? 3 bribe, suborn, pay off, buy off, corrupt: That customs man must have been bought or he wouldn't have let the package through. --n. 4) purchase, acquisition: We made a bad buy at the last auction. 5) Also, good buy. bargain, Colloq US and Canadian steal: If you paid only њ2,000, that was a real buy.