Buy-in

Full definition of buy-in

Noun

1. Support; agreement; approval; blessing (in a secular sense).
   Let's show the idea around and get buy-in from marketing.
2. (poker) A tournament where a player must purchase all of his or her chips before the tournament starts.
3. (poker) The amount that a player buys in for
• 1983, David M. Hayano, Poker faces: the life and work of professional card players, When tournament players are eliminated but remain eager to win back their buy-in, side games often develop and upstage tournament play with limits exceeding those in the tournament.

Coordinate terms

• (poker tournament) rebuy, cash game, sit-and-go