buy up

/bˈaɪ ˈʌp/

to buy up

MAIN VERB

[phrase form: buy]

to buy the whole supply of something such as tickets, stocks, goods, etc.

synonyms : buy out

Examples

1. In India, people bought up wheat flour.

2. A group of rich countries is buying up billions of doses.

3. Buying up the world's farmland like Bill Gates, one of the number, maybe now the number one farm owner, farm land owner in the United States.

4. The government also bought up excess crops.