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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United Rentals, which was founded to essentially roll up a fragmented and inefficient industry, believed that the best use of its enormous free cash flow generation was to buy up competitors to drive growth through acquisition. Jenny Van Leeuwen Harrington, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2025 Monitoring: Regulators should be monitoring the market and providing regulations as needed to help new entrants enter the market as well as preventing big players from buying up their competition and creating monopolies. Neven Dilkov, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025 Then, in January, Musk began buying up Twitter stock. Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025 Ticketmaster previously implemented measures to prevent scalpers from buying up a majority of seats, using a verified fan system and lottery method for high-demand concerts. Sara Chernikoff, USA Today, 4 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 23 Apr. 2025.

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