Buy and Motivate

Buy

Buy verb - To influence someone with a bribe.
Usage example: there were rumors that the mobster had bought the judge

Motivate and buy are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Motivate" instead a verb "Buy".

Nearby Words: buyer, buying

Motivate

Motivate verb - Give an incentive for action.

Buy and motivate are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Buy" instead a verb "Motivate".

Mutual synonyms

Common collocations

way buy way motivate way

Both words in one sentence

  • Western Animation / Looney Tunes Snowball Fight Something Completely Different: The 1942 Any Bonds Today is only 1 minute and 38 seconds long and is in essence a propaganda short where Bugs, Porky and Elmer Fudd sing and dance to motivate people to buy war bonds to support the war effort.
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