to buy large amounts of something or all of it that is available
Developers bought up old theatres and converted them into cinemas.
For even if he managed to buy up all the shares on the open market, it would still amount to a stand-off.
Or perhaps buy up the outstanding outside holdings to prevent any attempt at a stand-off.
`I'd like you to buy up to thirty thousand shares, but not if the price goes higher than a dollar twenty.
had told him, though of course I can't work out how much of it we can buy up till I know how much money there's actually going to be.
buys up
buying up
bought up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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