buy up

verb

bought up; buying up; buys up

transitive verb

1

: to buy freely or extensively

2

: to buy the entire available supply of

Examples of buy up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Those firms are buying up gas capacity to ensure that data centers can be built quickly, even if that means sidelining climate targets. —Justin Worland, Time, 8 May 2026

Here's a fascinating story about a hockey dad who built a business that bought up rinks and teams across the Northeast and Midwest and then allegedly leveraged that control to steer families into its own costly ecosystem of leagues, tournaments and fees. —Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 7 May 2026

The remaining $500 million comes from a pre-funded warrant for Nvidia to buy up to 3 million shares of Corning. —Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 6 May 2026

Beginning in 2003, Bezos quietly bought up land in western Texas to serve as Blue Origin’s testing and operations center, ultimately purchasing some 400,000 acres—an area more than half the size of Rhode Island. —Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 May 2026

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1534, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for buy up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup