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buying off
vb. (present participle of buy off English)
Usage examples of "buying off".
I have spent most of this morning buying off both the West Coast triads and the Bay City police, neither of whom were very well disposed towards me even before you started this carnage.
They were using our contact sheets and buying off the tribe leaders I'd busted my ass cultivating.
Its pockets were deep and it began buying off the plaintiffs with huge settlements.
Well, somebody has, and of all people it's the GottAbout forty minutes ago they registered the fifty-one percent holding in Holocosmic-apparently they've been buying off everyone who could be reached at nearly double the market price-and their first decision now that they control the network is to discontinue the Matthew Flamen show.