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

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This would discourage entities from buying up hundreds or thousands of homes and turning the masses into renters. U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2025 Perhaps establish an innocent-looking shell company that comes along and buys up the AI maker. Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025 Brian Snyder | Reuters Boeing and Qatar Airways said the Middle Eastern airline would buy up to 210 jets from the planemaker in a record-breaking deal. Michele Luhn, CNBC, 15 May 2025 The dual-class effect: Meta as a case study In a standard single-class structure – where voting power tracks the amount of company equity a shareholder owns – someone seeking total control of a company must ordinarily spend a lot of money buying up shares, which also means assuming a lot of risk. Gregory H. Shill, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for buy up

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1534, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of buy up was circa 1534

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“Buy up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/buy%20up. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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