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

Secondary marketplaces like StubHub buy up tickets and resell them, sometimes without complete information about seat restrictions. —Christopher Elliott, Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2026

But where does Ted Turner live now that other tycoons have bought up enough acreage to surpass his record? —Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 6 Feb. 2026

Cloud computing giants such as Microsoft and Google are buying up memory hardware at data-center scale to build out AI clusters, tightening the supply for everyone else. —Eric Sullivan, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2026

Indeed, the American economy looks more and more like Big Law, overtorqued toward financial firms that are pushing into our retirement accounts, buying up our ophthalmologists and car washes, and are becoming the largest indirect employers in the country. —Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 5 Feb. 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