buyer

buy /baÇ/ v (pt, pp bought /bↄ:t/)

၁။ ~ sth (for sb) ဝယ်သည်။ ဝယ်ပေးသည်။ House prices are low; it's a good time to buy. ❍ Where did you buy that coat? ❍ Did you buy your car new or second- hand? ❍ I bought this watch (from a friend) for £10. ❍ She's buying a present for her boyfriend. ❍ I must buy myself a new shirt.
၂။ (ငွေ) ပေး၍ရသည်။ (ငွေဖြင့်) ဝယ်နိုင်သည်။ He gave his children the best education that money could buy. ❍ Money can't buy happiness. ❍ A dollar today buys much less than it did a year ago.
၃။ ငွေနှင့်ပေါက်သည်။ ငွေခွံ့သည်။ He can't be bought (ie is too honest to accept money in this way).
၄။ (usu passive) ရင်း၍၊ ပေး၍ ရယူသည်။ စတေး၍ ရယူသည်။ His fame was bought at the expense of health and happiness. ❍ The victory was dearly bought (ie Many people were killed to achieve it).
၅။ (infml ) (အမှန်တရားအဖြစ်) လက်ခံသည်၊ ယုံကြည်သည်။ No one will buy that excuse.
n အဝယ်။ ဝယ်သည့်အရာ။ ဝယ်စရာ။ a good buy (ie a thing that is of good quality and not too expensive) ❍ Best buys of the week are carrots and cabbages, which are plentiful and cheap.
❏ buyer n
၁။ ဝယ်သူ။ Have you found a buyer for your house?
၂။ အဝယ်တော်။
❏ buyer's market n ဝယ်သူ့အလိုကျ ဈေးကွက် အခြေအနေ။
❏ buy sth in [PHRV ] (ပစ္စည်း) ဝယ်လှောင်သည်။ buy in coal for the winter.
❏ buy into sth [PHRV ] ကုမ္ပဏီအစုရှယ်ယာ ဝယ်သည်။ We bought into the Xerox Company at the right time.
❏ buy sb off [PHRV ] နှုတ်ပိတ်ခပေးသည်။ မနှောင့်ယှက်အောင် ငွေထိုးသည်။ Unless he drops the charge we'll have to buy him off.
❏ buy-out n ကုမ္ပဏီကို ကွပ်ကဲနိုင်ရန် လုံလောက်သော (သို့) အားလုံးသော ရှယ်ယာများကို ဝယ်ယူခြင်း။ a management buy-out.
❏ buy sb out [PHRV ] (လုပ်ငန်း၏ ရှယ်ယာအားလုံးကို မိမိတစ်ဦးတည်းပိုင်လုပ်ရန်) သူတစ်ပါးလက်ဝယ်မှ ရှယ်ယာကို အကျွတ်ဝယ်သည်။ Having bought out all his partners he now owns the whole company.
❏ buy a pig in a poke [IDM ] လက်လွတ်စပယ်ဝယ်သည်။
❏ buy time [IDM ] အချိန်ဆွဲသည်။ The union leaders are trying to buy time by prolonging the negotiations.
❏ buy sth up [PHRV ] (ရသလောက်) အကုန်သိမ်းကျုံး ဝယ် သည်။ A New York businessman has bought up the entire company.