buy up
Britishverb
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to purchase all, or all that is available, of (something)
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commerce to purchase a controlling interest in (a company, etc), as by the acquisition of shares
Example Sentences
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Once on the other side of the queue, people can buy up to six tickets per transaction after paying a deposit.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Treasury can buy up Japanese bonds and the Japanese government can buy up Treasurys?
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
Nor can China’s trading partners simply buy up yuan to force it higher, since China tightly controls access to its currency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The obvious solution will be the Federal Reserve, which can revive the old quantitative-easing program, effectively printing or creating new money and using it to buy up Treasury bonds.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
If he’d given you those four bankbooks to do what you liked, to buy up the Erie Lackawanna Railroad, he could have had her all he liked, right?
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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