buy-in

buy-in noun: support; agreement; blessing (in a secular sense).

Noun (1)

buy-in (countable and uncountable, plural buy-ins)

Support; agreement; blessing (in a secular sense).
- To win, I need to get buy-in from the team to have alignment with our mission.
- Let's show the idea around and get buy-in from marketing.
Synonyms:

alignment, approval
A tournament where a player must purchase all of his or her chips before the tournament starts.
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.1983, David M. Hayano, Poker faces: the life and work of professional card players

buy-in (plural buy-ins)

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...2025 November 24, Giulia Carbonaro, “Home Depot Hit by ‘ICE Scraper’ Protest As Dozens Line Up To Buy 17¢ Item”, in Newsweek, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2025

plural	buy-ins

Deverbal from buy in.

From buy + -in.

What does buy-in mean?: Buy-in means support; agreement; blessing (in a secular sense).
What part of speech is buy-in?: Buy-in is a noun.
What is the plural of buy-in?: The plural of buy-in is buy-ins.

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