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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Each account holder can buy up to 12 Olympic tickets across all drops, then an additional 12 soccer tickets that don’t count toward the general ticket maximum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Microsoft and its rivals have been scrambling to buy up artificial-intelligence hardware at a time when prices for key memory components have skyrocketed, raising questions about profits.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
The selling shareholders have granted the underwriters of the IPO the right to buy up to an additional 8.1 million shares at C$24 apiece to cover any overallotment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
GameStop rose to prominence as a "meme stock", which sees retail investors buy up shares in unloved companies that professional investors have bet against, causing the share price to rise and fall sharply.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
They sent agents abroad to buy up libraries.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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