2. Verb. (transitive) To outbid (someone) for something. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To reach a better purchase bargain than (someone). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Outbuy
1. to surpass in buying [v -BOUGHT, -BUYING, -BUYS] - See also: buying
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outbuy
Literary usage of Outbuy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"They 've charged over-prices for second-rate goods, And laughed at our grumblings,
our "coulds and our"woulds; We '11 outbuy and outsell them, ..."
2. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1809)
"... of our countreys honour, a, trade wherein wee were wont to outbuy all our
neighbors: And make the ..."
3. Religion and Business by Roger Ward Babson (1920)
"In the last analysis the successful business man to-day must outbuy and outsell
his neighbor. The rule of trade is that a man must give as little to the ..."
4. Christianity and the Social Crisis by Walter Rauschenbusch (1907)
"It will outbuy and outsell its neighbor if it can. It tries to take his trade
and grasp all visible sources of income in its own hand. The rule of trade, ..."
5. Christianity and the Social Crisis by Walter Rauschenbusch (1907)
"It will outbuy and outsell its neighbor if it can. It tries to take his trade
and grasp all visible sources of income in its own hand. The rule of trade, ..."
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