BUYS vs STEAL: NOUN
- An advantageous purchase
- Plural form of buy.
- A stolen base; an instance in which a base runner advances safely during the delivery of a pitch (without the help of a hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch)
- An advantageous purchase
- The act of stealing.
- A bargain.
- A stolen base.
- An act of gaining possession of the ball from an opponent.
- An act or a case of: theft: as, an official steal; specifically, in baseball. a stolen or furtive run from one base to another: as, a steal to third base. See steal, transitive verb, 9.
- Same as stale.
- In golf, a long putt which wins a hole.
- A handle; a stale, or stele.
BUYS vs STEAL: VERB
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of buy.
- Make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
- Accept as true
- Be worth or be capable of buying
- Obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction
- Acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange
- Steal a base
- Take without the owner's consent
- Move stealthily
- To go stealthily or furtively
- To illegally, or without the owner's permission, take possession of something by surreptitiously taking or carrying it away.
- To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
- To copy copyright-protected work without permission.
- To acquire at a low price.
- To move silently or secretly.
- To dispossess
BUYS vs STEAL: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- N/A
- To steal a base.
- To move, happen, or elapse stealthily or unobtrusively.
- To steal another's property.
- To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a base hit, walk, passed ball, or wild pitch.
- To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer.
- To give or enjoy (a kiss) that is unexpected or unnoticed.
- To get or take secretly or artfully.
- To take (the property of another) without right or permission.
- To present or use (someone else's words or ideas) as one's own.
- To practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft.
- To withdraw, or pass privily; to slip in, along, or away, unperceived; to go or come furtively.
BUYS vs STEAL: TRANSITIVE VERB
- N/A
- To get into one's power gradually and by imperceptible degrees; to take possession of by a gradual and imperceptible appropriation; -- with away.
- To accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly.
- To march in a covert way; to gain an advantage unobserved; -- formerly followed by of, but now by on or upon, and sometimes by over; as, to steal a march upon one's political rivals.
- To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.
- To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate.
- To take, and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully.
BUYS vs STEAL: OTHER WORD TYPES
- N/A
- To entice or win by insidious arts or secret means.
- To perform, procure, or effect in a stealthy or underhand way; perform secretly; conceal the doing, performance, or accomplishment of.
- To move furtively and slyly: as, she stole her hand into his.
- In base-ball, to secure, as a base or run, without an error by one's opponents or a base-hit by the batter; to run successfully to, as from one base to the next, in spite of the efforts of one's opponents: as, to steal second base: sometimes used intransitively with to: as, to steal to second base.
- In netting, to take away (a mesh) by netting into two meshes of the preceding row at once.
- Synonyms To filch, pilfer, purloin, embezzle. See pillage, n.
- To practise or be guilty of theft.
- To move stealthily or secretly; creep softly; pass, approach, or withdraw surreptitiously and unperceived; go or come furtively; slip or creep along insidiously, silently, or unperceived; make insinuating approach: as, to Steal into the house at dusk; the fox stole away: sometimes used reflexively.
- To take or assume without right.
- To smuggle, literally or figuratively.
- To remove, withdraw, or abstract secretly or stealthily.
- To obtain surreptitiously, or by stealth or surprise: as, to steal a kiss.
- In golf, to hole (a long, unlikely putt) so that the ball just drops into the hole.
- In cricket, to gain (a run) and increase the score because of the slowness of the fielders: said of the batsman.
- To take feloniously; take and carry off clandestinely, and without right or leave; appropriate to one's own uses dishonestly, or without right, permission, or authority: as applied to persons, to kidnap; abduct: as, to steal some one's purse; to steal cattle; to steal a child.
- (idiom) (steal (someone's) thunder) To use, appropriate, or preempt the use of another's idea, especially to one's own advantage and without consent by the originator.
BUYS vs STEAL: RELATED WORDS
- Takes, Redeems, Spends, Gets, Purchasing, Purchases, Purchased, Procures, Pays, Acquires, Corrupt, Bribe, Steal, Bargain, Purchase
- Shoplift, Filch, Thieve, Purloin, Grab, Snatch, Rob, Pilfer, Mouse, Pussyfoot, Creep, Bargain, Slip, Buy, Sneak
BUYS vs STEAL: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Flogs, Chooses, Selects, Uses, Shopping, Saves, Procurement, Shop, Acquisition, Dies, Purchased, Corrupt, Steal, Bargain, Purchase
- Seize, Theft, Shoplift, Thieve, Purloin, Grab, Snatch, Pilfer, Mouse, Pussyfoot, Creep, Bargain, Slip, Buy, Sneak
BUYS vs STEAL: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- One who buys an endowment plan with a waiver of premium rider, buys pure insurance, not a package of investment and insurance.
- When a gay couple buys the shares of a cooperative or buys a condominium apartment, what is the best way to hold title?
- Rounding: When we calculate Fly Buys Points we will round up or down to the nearest whole Fly Buys Point.
- Fly Buys Points: Fly Buys Points that are earned have no cash or monetary value.
- Anybody that buys a Hawkins home buys an amazing house to be proud to call home!
- Instead, the organization buys water rights and, in some cases, buys land associated with water rights.
- Who buys the gift is between you and your bride to be, but typically the groom buys the groomsmen presents.
- The slaveowner buys his labourer as he buys his horse.
- If your company buys fixed assets or buys another company, those are investing costs.
- Money buys pleasure but it also buys security.
- Since I cannot steal from my neighbor, I cannot give the authority to someone else to steal from him.
- If you steal from another, you steal from yourself?
- Unfortunately, the people who are most determined to steal from you will find a way to steal from you no matter what you do.
- He that will steal a pin, will steal a better thing.
- This is done to gain your confidence, get access to your systems, steal data, steal money, or spread malware.
- As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours.
- So I used to steal money, or I would steal things from shops and sell them to friends.
- In addition, some cyber criminals can steal your data online, and may also steal your money.
- Some employees even steal from their company or steal company property of variable values.
- Realizing how I steal and let people steal my energy was initially uncomfortable.
BUYS vs STEAL: QUESTIONS
- What happens to interest rates when fed buys securities?
- What does Iberdrola get when it buys Scottish Power?
- What happens when the Fed buys securities from banks?
- Who buys First Trust NASDAQ rising Dividend Achievers ETF?
- Is there a mortgage company that buys manufactured homes?
- Which industry buys the largest number of reprints?
- Which cryptocurrency buys the most Bellerophon Therapeutics shares?
- Why choose led bedroom furniture from factory buys?
- What happens if Hilcorp buys Alliance Oil Refinery?
- What company buys 80 percent of Harlem Globetrotters?
- Did anonymous steal military documents from North Korea?
- Why did Daniel Pelka steal sandwiches from children?
- Did YouTube users steal content from other YouTubers?
- Did AmBank steal from 1Malaysia Development Berhad?
- Did Airtasker steal intellectual property from freelancer?
- Did the starzecpyzels steal artwork from brownstone?
- Will esports steal consumers from traditional sports?
- Which browser extensions can steal your information?
- What is vertebro-basilar insufficiency (subclavian steal)?
- Did McKinsey steal AlixPartners' intellectual property?