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Definition of Buy in
1. Verb. Amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use. "Let's stock coffee as long as prices are low"
Category relationships: Commerce, Commercialism, Mercantilism
Specialized synonyms: Overstock, Understock
Generic synonyms: Furnish, Provide, Render, Supply
Derivative terms: Stock, Stock, Stockist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Buy In
Literary usage of Buy in
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"I was required to give my word that I would not buy in the wheat unless by his
orders, but would allow him to default, and Maltman told me that White said ..."
2. Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax ...by OECD Staff, Organisation for Economic Co-operation, OECD, Development by OECD Staff, Organisation for Economic Co-operation, OECD, Development (2001)
"balancing payments and the buy-in payment could be netted, ... 8.33 A buy-in
payment should be treated for tax purposes in the same manner as would apply ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... in the Corfu market, and a considerable sum goes annually to buy in Apulia
the garlic and onions so largely used by the people. ..."
4. The Works of Rufus Choate: With a Memoir of His Life by Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862)
"They buy in gross, to sell by retail. The lights which they kindle here will not
be set under a bushel, but will burn on a thousand hills. ..."
5. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1895)
"283; Bohn v. Davis, 75 Tex. 24; Farmer v. Dean, 32 Beav. 327; Campbell v. Walker,
5 Ves. 678. The directors of a corporation may buy in corporate property ..."
6. Maintaining Budgetary Discipline: Spending and Revenue Options edited by Sherry Snyder (1999)
"Allowing people to "buy in" to Medicare at age 62 beginning in January 2000,
together with the gradual move to a later normal age of eligibility (67), ..."
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