Buy Definition–verb (used with object) | 1. | to acquire the possession of, or the right to, by paying or promising to pay an equivalent, esp. in money; purchase. | | 2. | to acquire by exchange or concession: to buy favor with flattery. | | 3. | to hire or obtain the services of: The Yankees bought a new center fielder. | | 4. | to bribe: Most public officials cannot be bought. | | 5. | to be the monetary or purchasing equivalent of: Ten dollars buys less than it used to. | | 6. | Chiefly Theology. to redeem; ransom. | | 7. | Cards. to draw or be dealt (a card): He bought an ace. | | 8. | Informal. | a. | to accept or believe: I don't buy that explanation. | | b. | to be deceived by: He bought the whole story. | | –verb (used without object) | 9. | to be or become a purchaser. | –noun | 10. | an act or instance of buying. | | 11. | something bought or to be bought; purchase: That coat was a sensible buy. | | 12. | a bargain: The couch was a real buy. | —Verb phrases | 13. | buy down, to lower or reduce (the mortgage interest rate) by means of a buy-down. | | 14. | buy in, | a. | to buy a supply of; accumulate a stock of. | | b. | to buy back one's own possession at an auction. | | c. | to undertake a buy-in. | Also, buy into. | | 15. | buy into, to purchase a share, interest, or membership in: They tried to buy into the club but were not accepted. | | 16. | buy off, to get rid of (a claim, opposition, etc.) by payment; purchase the noninterference of; bribe: The corrupt official bought off those who might expose him. | | 17. | buy out, to secure all of (an owner or partner's) share or interest in an enterprise: She bought out an established pharmacist and is doing very well. | | 18. | buy up, to buy as much as one can of something or as much as is offered for sale: He bought up the last of the strawberries at the fruit market. | —Idiom | 19. | buy it, Slang. to get killed: He bought it at Dunkirk. | |
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Used Definition–adjective | 1. | previously used or owned; secondhand: a used car. | | 2. | showing wear or being worn out. | | 3. | employed for a
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purpose; utilized. | —Idiom | 4. | used to, accustomed or habituated to: I'm not used to cold weather. They weren't used to getting up so early. | |
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College Definition–noun | 1. | an institution of higher learning, esp. one providing a general or liberal arts education rather than technical or professional training. Compare university. | | 2. | a constituent unit of a university, furnishing courses of instruction in the liberal arts and sciences, usually leading to a bachelor's degree. | | 3. | an institution for vocational, technical, or professional instruction, as in medicine, pharmacy, agriculture, or music, often a part of a university. | | 4. | an endowed, self-governing association of scholars incorporated within a university, as at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England. | | 5. | a similar corporation outside a university. | | 6. | the building or buildings occupied by an institution of higher education. | | 7. | the administrators, faculty, and students of a college. | | 8. | (in Britain and Canada) a private secondary school. | | 9. | an organized association of persons having certain powers and rights, and performing certain duties or engaged in a particular pursuit: The electoral college formally selects the president. | | 10. | a company; assemblage. | | 11. | Also called collegium. a body of clergy living together on a foundation for religious service or similar activity. | | 12. | British Slang. a prison. | |
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Book Definition–noun | 1. | a written or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers. | | 2. | a number of sheets of blank or ruled paper bound together for writing, recording business transactions, etc. | | 3. | a division of a literary work, esp. one of the larger divisions. | | 5. | Music. the text or libretto of an opera, operetta, or musical. | | 7. | Jazz. the total repertoire of a band. | | 8. | a script or story for a play. | | 9. | a record of bets, as on a horse race. | | 10. | Cards. the number of basic tricks or cards that must be taken before any trick or card counts in the score. | | 11. | a set or packet of tickets, checks, stamps, matches, etc., bound together like a book. | | 12. | anything that serves for the recording of facts or events: The petrified tree was a book of Nature. | | 13. | Sports. a collection of facts and information about the usual playing habits, w
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eaknesses, methods, etc., of an opposing team or player, esp. in baseball: The White Sox book on Mickey Mantle cautioned pitchers to keep the ball fast and high. | | 14. | Stock Exchange. | a. | the customers served by each registered representative in a brokerage house. | | b. | a loose-leaf binder kept by a specialist to record orders to buy and sell stock at specified prices. | | | 15. | a pile or package of leaves, as of tobacco. | | 16. | Mineralogy. a thick block or c
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rystal of mica. | | 17. | a magazine: used esp. in magazine publishing. | | 20. | the book, | a. | a set of rules, conventions, or standards: The solution was not according to the book but it served the purpose. | | b. | the telephone book: I've looked him up, but he's not in the book. | | –verb (used with object) | 21. | to enter in a book or list; record; register. | | 22. | to reserve or make a reservation for (a hotel room, passage on a ship, etc.): We booked a table at our favorite restaurant. | | 23. | to register or list (a person) for a place, transportation, appointment, etc.: The travel agent booked us for next week's cruise. | | 24. | to engage for one or more performances. | | 25. | to enter an official charge against (an arrested suspect) on a police register. | | 26. | to act as a bookmaker for (a bettor, bet, or sum of money): The Philadelphia syndicate books 25 million dollars a year on horse racing. | –verb (used without object) | 27. | to register one's name. | | 28. | to engage a place, services, etc. | | 29. | Slang. | a. | to study hard, as a student before an exam: He left the party early to book. | | b. | to leave; depart: I'm bored with this party, let's book. | | c. | to work as a bookmaker: He started a restaurant with money he got from booking. | | –adjective | 30. | of or pertaining to a book or books: the book department; a book salesman. | | 31. | derived or learned from or based on books: a book knowledge of sail
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ing. | | 32. | shown by a book of account: The firm's book profit was $53,680. | —Verb phrases | 33. | book in, to sign in, as at a job. | | 34. | book out, to sign out, as at a job. | | 35. | book up, to sell out in advance: The hotel is booked up for the Christmas holidays. | —Idioms | 36. | bring to book, to call to account; bring to justice: Someday he will be brought to book for his misdeeds. | | 37. | by the book, according to the correct or established form; in the usual manner: an unimaginative individual who does everything by the book. | | 38. | close the books, to balance accounts at the end of an accounting period; settle accounts. | | 39. | cook the books, Informal. cook (def. 10). | | 40. | in one's bad books, out of favor; disliked by someone: He's in the boss's bad books. | | 41. | in one's book, in one's personal judgment or opinion: In my book, he's not to be trusted. | | 42. | in one's good books, in favor; liked by someone. | | 43. | like a book, completely; thoroughly: She knew the area like a book. | | 44. | make book, | a. | to accept or place the bets of others, as on horse races, esp. as a business. | | b. | to wager; bet: You can make book on it that he won't arrive in time. | | | 45. | off the books, done or performed for cash or without keeping full business records: esp. as a way to avoid paying income tax, employment benefits, etc.: Much of his work as a night watchman is done off the books. | | 46. | one for the book or books, a noteworthy incident; something extraordinary: The daring rescue was one for the book. | | 47. | on the books, entered in a list or record: He claims to have graduated from Harvard, but h
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is name is not on the books. | | 48. | throw the book at, Informal. | a. | to sentence (an offender, lawbreaker, etc.) to the maximum penalties for all charges against that person. | | b. | to punish or chide severely. | | | 49. | without book, | b. | without authority: to punish without book. | | | 50. | write the book, to be the prototype, originator, leader, etc., of: So far as investment banking is concerned, they wrote the book. | |
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