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

Tech layoffs are already hitting families in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area, and private equity firms buying up affordable housing will only make things worse. —Alex Lee, Mercury News, 19 June 2026

The lack of action is surprising, in part, because the idea of cracking down on Wall Street investment firms buying up houses has bipartisan support from prominent politicians. —Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 18 June 2026

The bartender, a woman named Taylor Roberto, said that scalpers had bought up some of the parking passes and were reselling them for five hundred. —Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 16 June 2026

The one mayoral candidate with a truly concrete Hollywood proposal was the Democratic Socialist Rae Huang, who advocated for the city to buy up movie theaters and sell tickets for low to no cost. —Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 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