Usually means: Pay to secure cooperation, silence.
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  1. buy off: Merriam-Webster
  2. buy off: Collins English Dictionary
  3. buy off: Vocabulary.com
  4. buy-off: Wordnik
  5. buy-off, buy off: Wiktionary
  6. buy off: Dictionary.com
  7. buy off: Rhymezone
  8. Buy Off: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  9. buy off: FreeDictionary.org
  10. buy off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. buy off: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. buy off: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. buy off: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. buy off: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (buy off)

verb:  (transitive) To pay off, convince to refrain etc. by corrupt payment or other service.
verb:  (transitive) To gain release for (a person) from military service by payment of money.

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