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buy
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buy time
to obtain a longer period before something happens. We were quickly running out of money but managed to buy time by getting a small loan.
See also: time

buy your way somewhere

to pay money so you can join or leave an organization. In the past, men could legally buy their way out of serving in the army. Some said he bought his way into the law firm.
See also: way


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Rather than first finding an investor to buy a neighboring farm that's for sale, Schroeder first buys the farm and then resells it to an investor with a long-term lease attached.
Other people's money: sale leasebacks convert land to cash by Williams, Elizabeth Curry / Top Producer
In ``Titanic,'' for example, Billy Zane's snooty villain lives, while the saintly Leonardo DiCaprio goes down with the ship (though a voice-over informs us that Zane's character buys the farm in the 1929 stock market crash, heh-heh
DISASTER FLICKS DO MUCH BETTER BY THE NUMBERS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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