To buy off is to pay somebody to stop making trouble for you. Buy off the objectors.
It is always an accusation, since the implication is that the payment bought silence. To buy off a complaint settles the noise rather than the fault.
1phrasebuy offTo pay somebody to stop making trouble for you.
“The company tried to buy off every objector one at a time.”
buy off is a phrase.
Practised in Phrasal Verbs