snap up

phrasal verb

snapped up; snapping up; snaps up

: to buy or take (something or someone) quickly or eagerly

Shoppers came to the store to snap up bargains after the holidays.

The company is hiring. When they see your work history, they'll snap you up!

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Together Films has snapped up a film sales exec to oversee France, Benelux and Latin America. —

Max Goldbart, Deadline, 24 Jan. 2025 Investors can snap up bank loans, which institutions make to companies, and benefit from the loans’ floating coupon rate. —

Darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 22 Jan. 2025 In early October, Korea Zinc launched a $1.5 billion share buyback, in the hope of denying shares that could be snapped up by the Young Poong-MBK alliance. —

Nicholas Gordon, Fortune Asia, 20 Jan. 2025 Han, looking almost cartoonishly mid-century metropolitan, wears a dark coat, with the lapel snapped up, over a white shirt and a dark tie. —

E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for snap up