buy off

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To pay off, convince to refrain etc. by corrupt payment or other service. transitive
    — Then, Sir, as to Bribery and Corruption at Elections ... every Elector has a natural Byass to vote for one Man rather than another, and every Elector will vote according to his natural Byass, if he is not bought off: whoever endeavours to buy him off, must certainly come up to his Price, and this Price will be higher or lower, according to the Elector's Honour and Circumstances, and the natural Byass he has for the other Candidate. A great many Men may be perhaps bought off with 100 or 1000 Guineas, who, if half that sum were offered, would spurn it away with an honest Disdain.
  2. To gain release for (a person) from military service by payment of money. transitive

词形变化

buys off present,singular,third-person buying off participle,present bought off participle,past bought off past
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