businessto pay money to your business partner so that you can control all of a business you previously owned together
The boardmembers have offered to buy me out.
Synonyms and related words
Business partners and partnership
amalgamate
amalgamation
Bros.
2
(buy someone out) Britishto pay money so that someone can leave an organization, especially the military, before the time that they had originally agreed
buy out of:
He boughthimself out of the army.
Synonyms and related words
Joining and leaving the armed forces
4-F
AWOL
be invalided out (of)
3
buy out someone’s contractAmericanto 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
Forcing someone and being forced to leave a job
fire
lay off
retire
buy out
phrasal verb transitive
Word Forms
present tense
I/you/we/they
buy out
he/she/it
buys out
present participle
buying out
past tense
bought out
past participle
bought out
DEFINITIONS3
1
businessto pay money to your business partner so that you can control all of a business you previously owned together
The other directors have offered to buy me out.
Synonyms and related words
Business partners and partnership
amalgamate
amalgamation
Bros
2
(buy someone out) Britishto pay money so that someone can leave an organization, especially the armed forces, before the time that they had originally agreed
buy out of:
He boughthimself out of the army.
Synonyms and related words
Joining and leaving the armed forces
4-F
AWOL
be invalided out (of)
3
buy out someone’s contractAmericanto 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