BUY IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does buy in mean? 

• BUY IN (verb)
  The verb BUY IN has 1 sense:

1. amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use

  Familiarity information: BUY IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUY IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

buy in; stock; stock up

Context example:

let's stock coffee as long as prices are low

Hypernyms (to "buy in" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "buy in"):

overstock (stock excessively)

understock (stock with less than the usual or desirable number or quantity)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

You may need things that you did not have the time to buy in earlier months, so in January, perhaps armed with holiday cash gifted from relatives, you are ready to browse the Internet or shops.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)