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- noun
Support ;agreement ;approval ;blessing (in a secular sense). - noun poker A tournament where a player must
purchase all of his or her chips before the tournament starts. - noun poker The amount that a player buys in for
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Examples
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Without this input and collaborative design, the project cannot truly be successful and won't have occupant buy-in crucial to creating community leaders and residents who truly care about their neighborhood and its development.
Stacey McMahan: Santo: A New Community at Haiti's Earthquake Epicenter Stacey McMahan 2011
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"It's important that this model have buy-in from other governments in order to support the global growth of the Internet."
Obama administration joins critics of U.S. nonprofit group that oversees Internet 2011
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As part of the local buy-in, each village contributes 10-20% of the total construction cost in the form of labor and local materials.
Kassidy Brown: On the Ground With Pencils of Promise (Video) Kassidy Brown 2011
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Without this input and collaborative design, the project cannot truly be successful and won't have occupant buy-in crucial to creating community leaders and residents who truly care about their neighborhood and its development.
Stacey McMahan: Santo: A New Community at Haiti's Earthquake Epicenter Stacey McMahan 2011
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Without this input and collaborative design, the project cannot truly be successful and won't have occupant buy-in crucial to creating community leaders and residents who truly care about their neighborhood and its development.
Stacey McMahan: Santo: A New Community at Haiti's Earthquake Epicenter Stacey McMahan 2011
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As part of the local buy-in, each village contributes 10-20% of the total construction cost in the form of labor and local materials.
Kassidy Brown: On the Ground With Pencils of Promise (Video) Kassidy Brown 2011
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The success of any refinance push rests not only on whether policy makers can untangle a Gordian knot of technical hurdles, but also on whether they can get buy-in from private-sector players.
Home Lending Revamp Planned Nick Timiraos 2011
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Friday's Morgan Stanley meeting was sponsored by Nomura Securities analyst Glenn Schorr, who wrote in a research report Tuesday that "a longer buy-in timeline for the remaining 49% of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney ... would allow for better capital flexibility to deal with Basel III."
Morgan Stanley May Delay Boost in Smith Barney Stake Aaron Lucchetti 2010
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But, said Mr. Cameron of the commuter council, hiking fees can be a political issue, "particularly in an election year, and getting buy-in to build more parking lots during this economic climate is even harder."
Where Spots Are Hot Shelly Banjo 2011
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Without this input and collaborative design, the project cannot truly be successful and won't have occupant buy-in crucial to creating community leaders and residents who truly care about their neighborhood and its development.
Stacey McMahan: Santo: A New Community at Haiti's Earthquake Epicenter Stacey McMahan 2011
ecbrenner commented on the word buy-in
The acceptance of something, such as a large corporate expense or project, by those with the power to authorize it.
March 5, 2009
bilby commented on the word buy-in
I wonder if the reference to poker is deliberate.
March 5, 2009