1
: an act or instance of buying out
2
: a financial incentive offered to an employee in exchange for an early retirement or voluntary resignation
bought out; buying out; buys out
1
: to purchase the share or interest of
2
: to purchase the entire stock-in-trade and the goodwill of (a business)
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Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025
The biggest winners of the buyout include the shareholders and managers of FirstBank, who are likely being paid a premium for their private shares, said Sanjai Bhagat, a finance professor at the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business in Boulder.
—Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2025
M. Rajshekhar, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
Under the agreement, Lachlan is buying out the stakes of three of Rupert Murdoch’s other children — James Murdoch, Prudence MacLeod and Elisabeth Murdoch — who had challenged their father’s ability to restructure his heirs’ oversight of both corporations.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Earlier this month, Ellison announced Paramount would be requiring employees to work in the office five days a week starting next year and said employees who did not want to make that transition were offered buyouts.
—Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025
The biggest winners of the buyout include the shareholders and managers of FirstBank, who are likely being paid a premium for their private shares, said Sanjai Bhagat, a finance professor at the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business in Boulder.
—Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
People in Port Blair, the regional capital, are getting into the act and buying out land from locals on Great Nicobar.
—M. Rajshekhar, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
Under the agreement, Lachlan is buying out the stakes of three of Rupert Murdoch’s other children — James Murdoch, Prudence MacLeod and Elisabeth Murdoch — who had challenged their father’s ability to restructure his heirs’ oversight of both corporations.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
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“Buyout.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/buyout. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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buyout
1 of 2 noun
buy·out
ˈbī-ˌau̇t 
: an act or instance of buying out
buy out
2 of 2 transitive verb1
: to purchase the share or interest of
2
: to purchase the entire tangible and intangible assets of (a business)
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