buy-ins
buy-ins is the plural of buy-in.
Meaning of buy-in
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.
- 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
Noun (2)
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
Questions about buy-ins
- What is buy-ins the plural of?
- Buy-ins is the plural of buy-in.
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