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buy out
verb
to purchase the ownership, controlling interest, shares, etc, of (a company, etc)
to gain the release of (a person) from the armed forces by payment of money
to pay (a person) once and for all to give up (property, interest, etc)
noun
the purchase of a company, esp by its former management or staff See also leveraged buyout management buyout
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Example Sentences
None of the adult children can afford to buy out the other two, and the three adults and their families cannot all live in the house at once.
On 22 June 2005, the Glazer family paid £790m to buy out the club's exiting shareholders and to remove the club from the London stock market.
"They decided that competition was too hard and it would be easier to buy out their rivals than to compete with them," said FTC lawyer Daniel Matheson in his opening statement at Monday's trial.
The arrangement also provides $4.5 billion to buy out shareholders eager to exit.
In that time, his administration has fired, laid off, or otherwise forced or bought out tens of thousands of federal government employees.
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