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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Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2025
Already, tens of thousands of workers have been fired or taken an earlier buyout offer.
—Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2025
Tim Britton, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Silicon Valley Trump supporter and Andreessen Horowitz's co-founder, Marc Andreessen, is in talks to add new outside investment that will buy out TikTok's Chinese investors, as part of a bid led by Oracle and other American investors to carve it out of its parent company ByteDance, the report said.
—Juby Babu, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Paul Osadebe, a lawyer for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, spoke during the rally in Washington and said he's been asked by the Trump administration and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency to take a buyout offer.
—Verb
This deal buys out Merrill’s arbitration years and four free-agent years for $135 million.
—Cite this Entry
“Buyout.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/buyout. Accessed 11 Apr. 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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