buy up

VERB
  1. take over ownership of; of corporations and companies
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How To Use buy up In A Sentence

  • This after he just had a long rant on how we have to use government money to buy up the toxic assets that this "tallent" generated. The Housing Bubble Blog
  • Returning to his roots in the Edinburgh area, he settled at Little Kellerstain and started to buy up dilapidated properties in the city's West End, converting and upgrading them into flats and bedsits for rental.
  • The organisers of the French national lottery had miscalculated the odds, and if someone were to buy up all the tickets they would automatically make a huge profit.
  • He unveiled a radical £750 million package to buy up 20,000 empty houses for the use of homeless families.
  • Concentrate on one airline: Very frequent flyers get more free upgrades, often pay less to buy upgrades, and get preferred treatment on standby upgrade lists.
  • A finance house made a bid to buy up the entire company.
  • Very frequent flyers get more free upgrades, often pay less to buy upgrades, and get preferred treatment on standby upgrade lists.
  • To regrate was to buy up in the market and sell again in the same market at an advanced price. The History of London
  • The scheme to buy up empty houses and rent them to homeless families will help to solve two problems.
  • The mention of price rises sent citizens out to their shops to buy up as much as they could.
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