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buy up
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Princeton's WordNet
take over, buy out, buy upverb
take over ownership of; of corporations and companies
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buy upverb
To buy the whole of, the totality of something.
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buy up
Buy up refers to the act of purchasing or acquiring a large portion or all of a certain item, product, property, company shares or even an entire business. This is often done with the intention to take control or exert major influence over the market, enhance one's business portfolio or minimize competition.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of buy up in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of buy up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of buy up in a Sentence
In the short-term, Greece is a worry. But longer-term, people are looking towards QE, and the fact of the matter is that with this weaker euro, American buyers are coming in to buy up European shares.
People who go around trying to buy up bad pictures of themselves in the hope they can suppress them won't succeed.
I thought this was really innovative, if Sterling Burnett wants to buy up these coal mines and coal companies and package coal to power plants with trees to suck up carbon emissions, and this helps save the coal companies, then Sterling Burnett has made a real positive contribution.
People in Taiwan understandably have to be more cautious than ever in watching out that their liberties aren't eroded and that Chinese business does not buy up Taiwan business and become more influential.
We have to see that Chinese companies, partly with the support of state funds, are increasingly trying to buy up European companies that are cheap to acquire or that got into economic difficulties due to the coronavirus crisis.
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