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)
Examples of buyout in a Sentence
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CBS News, 19 May 2024
The school paid a $140,000 buyout for outside linebackers coach Roy Manning, as well as $25,000 for inside linebackers coach Brian Odom, each of whom no longer works at USC.
—Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
The 11-room retreat is also available on a full buyout basis for an ultra-special trip, and each room is meant to feel like a home away from home.
—Alexandra Pereira, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2024
Those who did not wish to make the investment and partake in the all-electric future were offered buyouts.
—Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 1 May 2024
LAist staffers offered buyouts ahead of possible layoffs at public radio station.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2024
Proposals under discussion would let buyout firms individually acquire as much 10% of a team, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because the deliberations are confidential.
—Randall Williams, Fortune, 7 May 2024
Peloton’s shares were up over 13% in mid-morning trading as a number of private equity firms consider a potential buyout of the at-home fitness company, as per a CNBC report.
—Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 7 May 2024
The intensifying scrutiny of the acquisition has raised expectations that the $15 billion buyout could ultimately be scuttled by the Biden administration.
—Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 3 May 2024
Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 9 May 2024
This is the scenario that many vocal nonvoting investors would prefer, believing that the Ellison proposal to buy out Shari Redstone’s controlling shares would leave them holding the bag.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2024
Morgan said more than half of his customers who buy currently available Volvo EVs initially lease them to qualify for the U.S. tax credit — then immediately buy out the lease.
—Reuters, NBC News, 25 Apr. 2024
Less than a year earlier, Elliott had advised the council to reject the mayor’s plan to buy out the Ash Street and Civic Center Plaza leases and said the case should proceed to trial.
—Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2024
The 37-year-old Philadelphia native had his contract bought out and was released over the weekend by Charlotte, which acquired him from Miami last month.
—Tom Withers, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
Robert Rowling Rowling bought out Omni hotels in 1996 after selling his family’s oilfields.
—Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Apr. 2024
Apple has bought out roughly 32 young AI companies in 2023.
—Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2024
How student housing around USC is transforming a historic Black and Latino neighborhood
Developers have been buying out longtime homeowners in South L.A., transforming a neighborhood west of USC away from single-family homes to modern student housing.
—Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
Noun
Those talks failed in 2018 but earlier this year, his sons started another series of buyout negotiations.
—CBS News, 19 May 2024
The school paid a $140,000 buyout for outside linebackers coach Roy Manning, as well as $25,000 for inside linebackers coach Brian Odom, each of whom no longer works at USC.
—Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
The 11-room retreat is also available on a full buyout basis for an ultra-special trip, and each room is meant to feel like a home away from home.
—Alexandra Pereira, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2024
Those who did not wish to make the investment and partake in the all-electric future were offered buyouts.
—Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 1 May 2024
LAist staffers offered buyouts ahead of possible layoffs at public radio station.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2024
Proposals under discussion would let buyout firms individually acquire as much 10% of a team, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because the deliberations are confidential.
—Randall Williams, Fortune, 7 May 2024
Peloton’s shares were up over 13% in mid-morning trading as a number of private equity firms consider a potential buyout of the at-home fitness company, as per a CNBC report.
—Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 7 May 2024
The intensifying scrutiny of the acquisition has raised expectations that the $15 billion buyout could ultimately be scuttled by the Biden administration.
—Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 3 May 2024
Verb
The company released its Q1 2024 earnings report Thursday, which is likely to be one of its last as a public company as Endeavor awaits the completion of its deal to be bought out at $27.50 per share in cash by private-equity firm Silver Lake.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 9 May 2024
This is the scenario that many vocal nonvoting investors would prefer, believing that the Ellison proposal to buy out Shari Redstone’s controlling shares would leave them holding the bag.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2024
Morgan said more than half of his customers who buy currently available Volvo EVs initially lease them to qualify for the U.S. tax credit — then immediately buy out the lease.
—Reuters, NBC News, 25 Apr. 2024
Less than a year earlier, Elliott had advised the council to reject the mayor’s plan to buy out the Ash Street and Civic Center Plaza leases and said the case should proceed to trial.
—Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2024
The 37-year-old Philadelphia native had his contract bought out and was released over the weekend by Charlotte, which acquired him from Miami last month.
—Tom Withers, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
Robert Rowling Rowling bought out Omni hotels in 1996 after selling his family’s oilfields.
—Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Apr. 2024
Apple has bought out roughly 32 young AI companies in 2023.
—Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2024
How student housing around USC is transforming a historic Black and Latino neighborhood
Developers have been buying out longtime homeowners in South L.A., transforming a neighborhood west of USC away from single-family homes to modern student housing.
—Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
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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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