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buy-in
[ bahy-in ]
noun
- an act or instance of buying in.
- the deliberate submission of a false bid, too low to be met, in order to win a contract.
- Poker. the chips purchased by a player from the banker, occasionally a set amount required to enter a specific competition or game.
buy in
verb
- tr to buy back for the owner (an item in an auction) at or below the reserve price
- intr to purchase shares in a company
- intr to buy goods or securities on the open market against a defaulting seller, charging this seller with any market differences
- informal.Alsobuy into tr to pay money to secure a position or place for (someone, esp oneself) in some organization, esp a business or club
- to purchase (goods, etc) in large quantities
to buy in for the winter
noun
- the purchase of a company by a manager or group who does not work for that company
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of buy-in1
Example Sentences
“We have buy-in from our players, we have buy-in from our coaching staff. That’s all we want right now.”
Mapping out a realistic scenario in which Mamdani can get the buy-in he needs from Hochul might require some stretch of imagination, but that's part of why he's running for mayor in the first place: to expand the voters' political imagination beyond what they've long been accustomed to or believed was the limit of possibility, paving the way for socialist victories at the ballot box and victories for the people in the halls of power.
Getting the local community's buy-in has also been a challenge.
While she will need buy-in from all the players and a vision for success, a 16-0 Ashes defeat in Australia should be enough motivation and I'm sure this will be a turning point.
She promised community buy-in before building homeless shelters — a hot button issue after then-Councilmember Mike Bonin threw his weight behind a city-run shelter in the heart of Venice that many residents opposed.
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