Laxi Dictionary

English Dictionary

Define dictionary terms easily in our powerful online English dictionary.

Searching for...

No matching words found

Try a different search term or browse the dictionary

Definition buy out in British English

buy out phrasal verb

[transitive] phrasal verb
1

to pay money to your business partner so that you can control all of a business you previously owned together

Example

The other directors have offered to buy me out.

Synonyms and related words
amalgamate amalgamation Bros
2

to pay money so that someone can leave an organization, especially the armed forces, before the time that they had originally agreed

Example

He bought himself out of the army.

Synonyms and related words
4-F AWOL be invalided out (of)
3

to pay a person or organization the rest of an amount of money that has been promised in a contract so that someone can leave or be forced to leave their job early

Synonyms and related words
fire lay off retire
Definition buy out in British English