Usually means: Exchange money for goods, services.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word buy:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. buy: Merriam-Webster
  2. buy, buy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. buy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. buy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. buy: Vocabulary.com
  6. buy: Wordnik
  7. buy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. buy: Wiktionary
  9. buy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. buy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. buy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. buy: Dictionary.com
  13. buy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. buy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Buy (album), Buy (disambiguation), Buy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Buy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. buy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. buy: Rhymezone
  19. buy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. buy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. buy: FreeDictionary.org
  22. buy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. buy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. buy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. buy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Buy: Investopedia
  4. buy: Legal dictionary
  5. buy: Financial dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. buy: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. BUY: Acronym Finder
  3. BUY: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. buy: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. buy, buy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. buy: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Buy: Dan's Poker
  2. Buy: Gambling Glossary
  3. Buy: Poker Terms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, ditransitive) To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods.
verb:  (transitive, ditransitive) To obtain, especially by some sacrifice.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To suffer consequences for (something) through being deprived of something; to pay for (something one has done).
verb:  (transitive) To bribe.
verb:  (transitive) To be equivalent to in value.
verb:  (transitive, informal) to accept as true; to believe
verb:  (intransitive) To make a purchase or purchases, to treat (for a drink, meal or gift)
verb:  (poker slang, transitive) To make a bluff, usually a large one.
noun:  Something which is bought; a purchase.

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