buy into sth
— phrasal verb with buy uk/baɪ/us/baɪ/verb bought, bought
(BELIEVE)
disapproving to completely believe in a set of ideas:
I don't buy into all that New Age stuff.
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Believing
- article of faith
- ascribe sth to sb
- belief
- believe
- believe in sth
- credit
- feel
- feel it in your bones idiom
- give sb the benefit of the doubt idiom
- gospel
- incline to/towards sth
- kid
- seeing is believing idiom
- self-delusion
- stock
- swear by sth
- take sb's word for it idiom
- take sth as read idiom
- under
- word
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(BUSINESS)
to buy a part of a business in order to have some control over it:
McDowell was trying to buy into the newspaper business.
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Buying
- acquisitiveness
- approval
- bid
- bidding war
- bite
- brand loyalty
- bulk-buy
- import
- load up on sth
- money-off
- on the slate idiom
- order form
- order sth in
- outbid
- over the counter idiom
- shop around
- shopaholic
- shopping
- stock up
- trade-in
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