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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Horizontal integration involves buying up other firms with similar activities. Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 9 Mar. 2025 Every year, the U.S. government buys up to $2.1 billion in food aid from American farmers. Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025 The company’s stock has soared more than 100% in the past year as AI companies who proclaim the technology’s future promise buy up vast amounts of Nvidia’s chips, bringing it to a more than $3.4 trillion valuation. Clare Duffy, CNN, 20 Feb. 2025 The upshot is that the after-tax returns for U.S. investments by Chinese entities well exceed those by U.S. investors—providing a significant incentive for Chinese entities to buy up U.S. assets from U.S. issuers and owners. Alex Raskolnikov, Foreign Affairs, 19 Feb. 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 18 Mar. 2025.

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