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 giants are buying up memory chips like never before, and paying a premium for multiyear contracts. —Nasteho Said, Bloomberg, 9 Mar. 2026

That鈥檚 a jolt to the senators in both parties working on a housing reform bill that鈥檚 now on the floor, which also includes a stab at the president鈥檚 priority of cutting down institutional investors buying up single-family homes. —semafor.com, 9 Mar. 2026

Big investors are buying up houses Large investors own about 11% of single-family home rentals in Las Vegas, according to the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution, compared with about 3% nationally. —Jonathan J. Cooper, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026

Yale University Properties is known for buying up New Haven buildings that could someday expand the campus or improve a block, sometimes to the chagrin of business tenants. —Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 4 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