Buyout
nounThe purchase of a controlling interest in a company, or a payment made to acquire someone's share or release them from a contract.
How to spell buyout
6 letters · 2 syllables
How to pronounce buyout
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What does buyout mean?
- nounThe purchase of a controlling interest in a company, or a payment made to acquire someone's share or release them from a contract.
Buyout in a sentence
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The management team arranged a buyout to take full control of the firm.
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She accepted a generous buyout rather than work out the final year of her contract.
Where does buyout come from?
Language of origin: Germanic
Buyout is a modern English compound, joining the verb 'buy' with the adverb 'out'. The verb 'buy' descends from the Old English bycgan, meaning 'to acquire by paying for', a word with Germanic roots that has been part of English since before the year 1000. The particle 'out' here carries the sense of buying something completely or buying someone out of their position, much as in 'sell out' or 'pay out'. The fused noun form emerged in twentieth century commercial and financial language, particularly in the United States, to name the purchase of a whole company or a controlling share. Because it is a transparent compound, the spelling holds no hidden trap beyond remembering that it is written as one solid word, not 'buy out' the verb phrase or the hyphenated 'buy-out'.
How the word is built
- buy (to purchase)
- out (particle indicating completion or removal)
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