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What does buy up mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word buy up? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To buy the whole of; to purchase the entire stock of something.
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To buy whatever is available of something.
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People would drink the poor vintage until a better one came along, but no one would buy up cases and cellar them away to age.
The Bishop commissioned a mercer called Packington to buy up New Testaments directly from the Dutch.
It also means mass transit, as well as things like government programs to buy up old gas guzzlers.
Did you log on and buy up the maximum allocation of six tickets per person?
Let's buy up tracts of vulnerable mangrove lands and begin securing at least the future.
Who else would buy up 6250 cans, only to give all the cans away to dossers?

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