/ · 1894 Brewer’s · B · Buy in (To)
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To collect stock by purchase; to withhold the sale of something offered at auction, because the bidding has not reached the “reserve price.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.