Usually means: Acquisition of entire company ownership.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. buy out: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. buy out: Collins English Dictionary
  3. buy out: Vocabulary.com
  4. Buy-Out, Buy-out, buy-out, buy out: Wordnik
  5. buy-out, buy out: Wiktionary
  6. buy-out, buy out: Dictionary.com
  7. Buy-out: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. buy out: Rhymezone
  9. Buy Out: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  10. buy-out, buy out: Free Dictionary
  11. buy out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. buy-out, buy out: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. buy out: Legal dictionary
  3. Buy Out, buy-out: Financial dictionary

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Buy-Out: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See buy_outs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (buy out)

verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) to purchase the entire stock or extent of something
verb:  (transitive) to purchase the ownership of a company
verb:  To close someone's contract by paying him or her a sum of money, the terms of which are often stated in the contract itself.
verb:  (transitive) To gain release for (a person) from military service by payment of money.
verb:  (intransitive, US, dated, slang) To avoid a punishment or escape a difficult situation.

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