Pay someone with influence in order to receive a favor.
1 Zedman had made that clear when he tried to buy off Talia.
2 Be cheaper and easier for the Company to buy off the inspector.
3 But they would only buy off one because they only needed one.
4 With money, however, one may buy off the others before the game.
5 It was amazing what you could buy off the shelf in America.
6 The articles clearly implied that, as always, money could buy off the government.
7 Hernando thought to buy off justice with the gold of Peru.
8 I'll buy off Adams at any price, and hush up the whole matter.
9 The truth is, that it was not Walpole's practice to buy off enemies.
10 Didn't he ship his rubber in by express, ruther'n to buy off me?
11 Miriam Bancroft trying to buy off her husband's investigator with illegal sexual favours.
12 But it takes a lot to buy off prejudice,-youdirty Smyrnian.
13 Not once but many times has he thus sought to buy off the Norsemen.
14 But I want to buy off that nephew of Mme.
15 But if we buy off the one, he will protect us against the other.'
16 If only they could buy off one of these supervisors!
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