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

Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways also boosted its fleet with 32 Airbus aircraft, while Bahrain’s Gulf Air plans to buy up to 18 Boeing 787 Dreamliners. —Dominic Dudley, semafor.com, 21 Nov. 2025

The tech heavy index rebounded on Friday as investors bought up shares of key technology stocks, a day after the group led Wall Street to its worst day in more than a month. —Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 17 Nov. 2025

Obsessed with maintaining confidence in the currency and advised by bankers, Grover Cleveland, the Democratic president, responded to the unemployment crisis not by spending dollars on public works, but by spending dollars buying up gold. —David McWilliams, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2025

Females are turning out in droves to see the third installment in the long-dormant franchise about a group of thieving magicians, buying up 54 percent of all tickets sold so far. —Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 15 Nov. 2025

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