English Explanatory Dictionary

buy-in

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Support; agreement; blessing (in a secular sense).
  2. A tournament where a player must purchase all of his or her chips before the tournament starts.
  3. The amount that a player buys in for
noun
  1. A protest in which participants buy an item and return it soon after in order to slow down the store's operations.

Word forms

buy-in buy-ins

Etymology

Deverbal from buy in.

Synonyms

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