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

Generac rose more than 30% in extended trading after Amazon received warrants to buy up to $340 million of its shares. — Justina Lee,tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2026

Animal-rights activists last year held long and often contentious debates over the hunt, buying up about one-third of the permits themselves to keep them from hunters’ hands. — Zoey Thomas, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2026

By buying up tickets — 300 by UCLA CEO of Athletics Tim Harris and 300 more by the Champion of Westwood NIL collective — to distribute to fans. — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ space company and a key supplier for the Vulcan rocket, appeared for a time to be the leading contender for buying up United Launch Alliance. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 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