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buy-in

noun

Etymology

Deverbal from buy in.

  1. derived from *bʰewgʰ-✻
  2. derived from *bʰūgʰ-✻
  3. inherited from *bugjaną✻
  4. inherited from *buggjan✻
  5. inherited from bycġan
  6. inherited from byen
  7. formed as buy-in — “buy + -in”

Definitions

  1. Support

    Support; agreement; blessing (in a secular sense).

    • To win, I need to get buy-in from the team to have alignment with our mission.
    • Let's show the idea around and get buy-in from marketing.

  2. A tournament where a player must purchase all of his or her chips before the tournament…

    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

    • When tournament players are eliminated but remain eager to win back their buy-in, side games often develop and upstage tournament play with limits exceeding those in the tournament.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A protest in which participants buy an item and return it soon after in order to slow…

      A protest in which participants buy an item and return it soon after in order to slow down the store's operations.

The neighborhood

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