What is "bought off"

Usage examples of "bought off".

If the suit-filing mothers were to be believed, Sol had three grown sons and three grown daughtersand the complainants were bought off with chump change settlementsweird for a man so given to charity for appearance's sake.

It would be, when most of the components couldn't be bought off the shelf anywhere.

The Sultan set out for this purpose, intending to visit Vijayanagar, but on the road he was met by emissaries from the minister, and bought off with lavish gifts.

He was offended by the way the corporation had bought off town officials, hated the way The Store had bulldozed its way into Juniper, was suspicious of the unexplainable strangeness surrounding its arrival, but he had to admit that The Store had an excellent selection of .

They'd be bought off, or disposed of, before it ever came to trial.

Her costly contract was bought off--it had three more years to run--and she was told never to enter the Banner Building again for any purpose whatsoever.

In fact, Roscoe did have a bottle that he had bought off the soldiers.

Apparently if I couldn't be bought off or scared off, the third step was to clue me in by saying their boss was interested in the Fedderman situation—.

These were bad years, but they were terminated in early 1865 by the arrival in the Low Village of a man reputed to be fantastically rich, and within six weeks this amazing Punti had broken open the floodgates so that the river was diverted and the village spared, had bought off the traitor General Wang and then betrayed him to government forces, and had made the village not only secure but happy.

Cog RafaeL Police commandante of Baja Norte who is bought off by the Zolars at the price of ten million dollars.