BUY UP Definition & Meaning

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buy up

verb

to purchase all, or all that is available, of (something)
commerce to purchase a controlling interest in (a company, etc), as by the acquisition of shares

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Idioms and Phrases

Purchase all that is available, as in They want to buy up all the land in this area . This term was first recorded in a law enacted under Henry VIII: “They buy up all manner of fish.”

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Trump has been on this crusade since the 1980s, when he saw Japanese businessmen buying up U.S. properties and getting rich selling their cars to Americans eager to buy them.

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In a rug pull, insiders buy up a large share of meme coin tokens in advance and then dump them after the price soars, leaving regular investors with tokens that are essentially worthless.

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Huge corporations and multinationals buying up portfolios of properties and entire neighborhoods.

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Some investors didn’t fully buy into Endeavor’s strategy of buying up different companies in sports and entertainment to create a greater empire.

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Tobener said the situation is a direct result of the corporatization of housing, where large companies and investors buy up as much single-family housing stock as possible in attempts to rent out the homes.

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