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

That was the name of the 2009 Obama-era program that helped to buy up 700,000 geezer-mobiles and got them off the roads. —Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026

Around the same time, the Witnesses also bought up a lot of other property in the area, including the Hotel Bossert and the Leverich Hotel, using them for their publishing house and shipping rooms and as dorms. —Kim Velsey, Curbed, 24 Mar. 2026

By buying up the company’s debt at a discount, Vireo Growth forced the owner of the Medicine Man brand into a restructuring that gave it control of two indoor grow facilities in Denver and an outdoor operation near Rye, as well as several dispensaries. —Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 21 Mar. 2026

After owner John Massimo Sobrato died in 1952 of cancer, his widow, Ann Sobrato, sold the restaurant and started buying up land in the South Bay, working in partnership with her son John Albert Sobrato, who was just a teenager. —J.k. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 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