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bought up

vb. (en-pastbuy up)

Usage examples of "bought up".

No advertisements must be sent to the newspapers, of which new editions must appear and be bought up every ten minutes.

Gornt's grandfather had bought up a lot of Struan's paper and he had lowered the boom.

Fearing a scarcity of sugar, consumers began to hoard hundred-pound bags, and institutional users bought up entire warehouses.

She'd have bought up as much of the city as possible, at cheap dawn's-coming prices, and would be running smooth after the bang, when dawn isn't coming anymore and land values head for high orbit.

He says Sam Logan breezed in and bought up five hundred dollars’.