Buys

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
buy/bʌɪ/

▶verb (buys, buying; past and past part. bought)

• 1 obtain in exchange for payment.

  ■ (buy someone out) pay someone to give up an ownership, interest, or share.

  ■ (buy oneself out) obtain one's release from the armed services by payment.

  ■ (buy something in) withdraw something at auction because it fails to reach the reserve price.

• 2 get by sacrifice or great effort.

• 3 informal accept the truth of.

▶noun informal a purchase.

– phrases
buy the farm N. Amer. informal die.
buy it informal be killed.
buy time delay an event temporarily so as to have longer to improve one's own position.

– origin OE bycgan, of Gmc origin.