buy

1. 1.

   an advantageous purchase

   “she got a bargain at the auction”

   “the stock was a real buy at that price”

   Synonymsbargainsteal

   Broaderpurchase

   Narrowersongtravel bargain

Other forms of buy

plural

buys·

past tense or participle

bought

present participle

buying·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about buy

What does buy mean?

buy means "obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in buy?

buy has 1 syllable: buy. In IPA it is /ˈbaɪ/.

What is another word for buy?

Close synonyms include purchase, bribe, corrupt, grease one's palms, bargain. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of buy?

The recorded antonyms are sell.

Is buy a common word?

buy is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with buy?

16 words rhyme with buy. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.