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

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Local activists bought up six square miles of redwood forest, then lobbied state officials for further measures to protect the area from logging. Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024 The trend to buy up bitcoin is catching on with mining stocks, noted JPMorgan’s Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou. Samantha Subin, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2024 United Airlines is also an investor in Heart and will buy up to 100 electric aircraft. Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024 As earlier reported by Cointelegraph, between 80% and 90% of the token’s supply was controlled by a combination of insider wallets and snipers, or entities that buy up large amounts of supply when a token is launched. William Gavin, Quartz, 5 Dec. 2024 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 25 Dec. 2024.

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