buy off

1. 1.

   pay someone with influence in order to receive a favor

   Synonymspay off

   Broaderbribe

   crime

Questions about buy off

What does buy off mean?

buy off means "pay someone with influence in order to receive a favor".

What is another word for buy off?

Close synonyms include pay off. 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.

Is buy off a common word?

buy off is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.