BUY UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does buy up mean? 

• BUY UP (verb)
  The verb BUY UP has 1 sense:

1. take over ownership of; of corporations and companies

  Familiarity information: BUY UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUY UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take over ownership of; of corporations and companies

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

buy out; buy up; take over

Hypernyms (to "buy up" is one way to...):

buy; purchase (obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

The men buy up the chairs

 Context examples 

And books! Thomson, Cowper, Scott—she would buy them all over and over again: she would buy up every copy, I believe, to prevent their falling into unworthy hands; and she would have every book that tells her how to admire an old twisted tree.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)