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buy off

verb

Definitions

  1. To pay off, convince to refrain etc. by corrupt payment or other service.

    • You like to hear about gold. A king filled his prison room As full as the room could hold To the top of his reach on the wall With every known shape of the stuff. ’Twas to buy himself off his doom.

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

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA