buy-in

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buy-in¹

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Deverbal from buy in.

noun buy-ins

  1. countable, uncountable Support; agreement; blessing (in a secular sense). To win, I need to get buy-in from the team to have alignment with our mission.

    Similar: alignment, approval

  2. countable, uncountable A tournament where a player must purchase all of his or her chips before the tournament starts.
  3. countable, uncountable The amount that a player buys in for When tournament players are eliminated but remain eager to win back their buy-in, side games often develop and upstage tournament play with limits exceeding those in the tournament.

buy-in²

noun buy-ins

  1. A protest in which participants buy an item and return it soon after in order to slow down the store's operations. Protests against Home Depot’s alleged involvement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) worksite raids have taken the form of disruptive “buy-ins” in at least one California store, with people lining up to purchase 17-cent ice scrapers only to return them immediately. […] According t

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noun support

Españolsoporte
Françaissupport
DeutschUnterstützung
Românăsusținere
Русскийподде́ржка poddéržka

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@misc{buy_in_2026,
  title = {buy-in},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/buy-in},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}