v.
1.be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance
2.be in control
3.have dominance or the power to defeat over
4.look down on
Idiom of the Day
buy out (someone or something) or buy (someone or something) out
to purchase a business or a company, to buy all of someone's shares in a company
The large company wants to buy out the small company. The company plans to buy out the president.