buy outとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

buy out (third-person singular simple present buys out, present participle buying out, simple past and past participle bought out)

1. (transitive, idiomatic) to purchase the entire stock or extent of something
   • 1784, Josiah Brown, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords., Reports of cases, upon appeals and writs of error, in the high court of Parliament, from the year 1701 to the year 1779. Volume 11, page 444:

     […] the present Earl had no colour or pretence of right to the estate; and yet the appellants had thought fit to buy him out, […]

   • 2006, Percy Harris, Forty Years in and Out of Parliament, page 18:

     […] and when he complained met with the reply that if he did not like his partner's methods he could either clear out or buy him out.

2. (transitive) to purchase the ownership of a company
3. To close someone's contract by paying him or her a sum of money, the terms of which are often stated in the contract itself.
   • 1986, Punch Imlach, Heaven and Hell in the NHL, page 149:

     A standard NHL contract, agreed to by both players and owners, has what is called a buy-out clause. If a player's performance deteriorates to the point that he is put on waivers and there are no takers, meaning nobody in the NHL wants him, his club can buy him out at one-third of what's left on the contract.

4. (transitive) To gain release for (a person) from military service by payment of money.

   Synonym: buy off

5. (intransitive, US, dated, slang) To avoid a punishment or escape a difficult situation.

   You always manage to buy out at the last second.

使用する際の注意点

• When referring to a property, the purchaser often desires to obtain complete control of a piece of real estate, or to purchase a neighboring property, often with the intent to develop the property by building a new or larger building(s), particularly with more housing units.
• When referring to a share of a partnership or company, the purchaser is often buying the share of a spouse, other family member, or retiring shareholder.
• When referring to a contract, the contract is typically for high ranking executives of a company, professional sports players, professional models, etc.

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語源

Deverbal from buy out.

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名詞

buyout (plural buyouts)

1. (finance) The acquisition of a controlling interest in a business or corporation by outright purchase or by purchase of a majority of issued shares of stock.
   • 2025 February 4, Katie Bo Lillis and Kaitlan Collins, “CIA sends ‘buyout’ offers to entire workforce”, in CNN‎:

     The Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday became the first major national security agency to offer so-called buyouts to its entire workforce, a CIA spokesperson and two other sources familiar with the offer said, part of President Donald Trump’s broad effort to shrink the federal government and shape it to his agenda.

   • 2025 February 12, Paula Reid, Tami Luhby and Devan Cole, “Federal judge lets Trump’s ‘buyout’ plan for federal employees proceed”, in CNN‎:

     Those orders frustrated the administration’s attempt to bring a quick close to the so-called buyout offer.

2. The use of grant monies to pay for another person to perform the usual duties, especially teaching duties, of someone engaged on the funded project.

派生語

関連する語

• buy out (verb)

参考

• merger
• sellout
• takeover

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• outbuy