PHRASAL VERB BUY

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This is the Rachel’s English 30-Day Challenge!
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Learn 30 phrasal verbs in 30 days!
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Jumpstart your vocabulary in 2017.
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Today is Day 21 and we're studying phrasal verbs with “buy”.
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You don’t have to buy up the videos in this phrasal verb vocabulary challenge,
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because they’re absolutely free!
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To buy up means to buy all of something that you can, quickly.
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This is a great deal. I’m going to buy up all these frames.
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Or, they’re buying up all the empty lots in Philadelphia to build apartments.
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To buy out means to buy all of someone’s shares or stake in a company.
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I bought out my partner when she decided to retire.
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I bought all her shares, so now I own the whole company.
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It can also be when a large company buys out all of the stock of a smaller company, taking ownership.
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Or if one company simply buys another company.
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Instagram was bought out by Facebook.
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If you buy somebody off, that means you pay that person, you give him or her money,
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so that they would do something or not do something for you.
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You bribe them.
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They wanted to buy me off, but I’m not going to take their money.
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I’m going to report their illegal activity.
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In other words, they wanted to pay me to keep quiet.
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If you buy into something, you believe it.
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I bought into the idea that he was going to be a great president.
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Or, if someone’s telling you something and it doesn’t seem truthful,
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you can say, “I don’t buy it.”
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That’s like saying, “I don’t believe you.”
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Buy in can also mean to invest.
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I think you should by into this company, I really think the stock is going to go up.
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We also use buy in with poker.
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If you want to join a poker game, you have to pay a certain amount of money to get chips to play with.
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That’s so you can start playing.
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I’m going to buy into the game at that table.
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The verb to buy back.
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This is when a company sells you something, and then when it’s not useful to you anymore, they’ll buy it back.
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For example, textbooks.
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You might find a store that will buy back your textbooks at the end of the school year, to sell them used.
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BUY begins with the B consonant. Lips come together, bb,
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vocal cords vibrate, bb, buy--
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and release into the AI diphthong, buy.
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Jaw drops for the beginning of that diphthong, ba--
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back of the tongue lifts, ba-- buy.
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Then the jaw comes up as the front of the tongue arches towards the front of the roof of the mouth.
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Buy, buy.
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