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Buy up

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To buy the whole of; to purchase the entire stock of something. idiomatic, transitive

    "The marshland was bought up by a housing company."

  2. 2
    take over ownership of; of corporations and companies wordnet
  3. 3
    To buy whatever is available of something. idiomatic, transitive

    "According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle."

  4. 4
    To buy off; to pay in blackmail money or similar. idiomatic, transitive

    "Sir Leicester Dedlock, Baronet, it's for you to consider whether or not to buy this up. I should recommend, on the whole, it's being bought up myself; and I think it may be bought pretty cheap."

Etymology

From buy + up.

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