单词 | buy off |
释义 | buy off phrasal verb See full dictionary entry for buy If you say that a person or organization buys off another person or group, you are criticizing the fact that they are giving them something such as money so that they will not complain or cause trouble. [disapproval] ...policies designed to buy off the working-class vote. [VERB PARTICLE noun] In buying your children all these things, you are in a sense buying them off. [VERB noun PARTICLE] |
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