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

Examples of buy up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The big pharma, flush with record revenues from its obesity and diabetes drugs, has opened a new genetic medicine center in Boston and bought up a series of gene editing or gene therapy companies over the last few years. —Jason Mast, STAT, 28 Apr. 2026

Scozzola echoed residents’ concerns that real estate was being bought up by foreign nationals, corporations and hedgefund companies, driving up prices while keeping the actual properties vacant. —Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2026

The new Yankee Stadium has always felt like a corporate, soulless shopping mall designed to attract businesses that could buy up the luxury suite inventory and Legends seats, rather than catering to the families of the Bronx. —Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2026

Congress recently tried to discourage institutional investors from buying up homes by passing the bipartisan 21st Century Road to Housing Act, which restricts that activity. —David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1534, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for buy up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup