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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Hank Tucker, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Following his buyout from the Portland Trail Blazers, Ayton quickly signed with Los Angeles.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
Barry Levitt, Time, 19 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
The firm ranks 10th out of 649 firms on this year’s HEC-Dow Jones large buyout performance rankings, an annual list compiled by HEC Paris Business School professor Oliver Gottschalg that assesses aggregate performance over a 10-year period.
—Hank Tucker, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Following his buyout from the Portland Trail Blazers, Ayton quickly signed with Los Angeles.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
In November 2019, MagicLabs was bought out by BlackRock, which installed Wolfe Herd as CEO, giving her purview over the entire MagicLabs/Badoo empire.
—Barry Levitt, Time, 19 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 26 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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