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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Founded in 2019, the company has been active in the catalog acquisition space, buying up rights from acts like Future, Blake Shelton and Enrique Iglesias. Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 29 Apr. 2025 Still more bought up homes as the government cleared its books of troubled assets after nationalizing several banks amid the Eurozone debt crisis. Benjamin Cunningham Edu Bayer, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025 CEOs were buying up virtually every Monet, Picasso and Warhol on auction to hang in Tokyo. William Pesek, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025 Those methods typically used by scalpers and bots, included purchasing more than four tickets per household, per show, and using multiple identities to buy up tickets. Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 1 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 6 May. 2025.

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