What is "buying up"

Usage examples of "buying up".

It came as a relief when people started buying up stocks at absurdly low prices, and they were even grateful that the purchases were being made in yen, whose strength had reasserted itself, the only bright light on the international financial scene.

Of course we were aware of the buying up of the shares, we watched the price rising, though it didn't jump alarmingly, probably because the buying was spread.

The damned Chinese had all the good jobs at Pearl Harbor, and with the income they got, were buying up most of Honolulu.

The Grebe place was sold to Philip Wendell, who was buying up any farmland that was being vacated by discouraged homesteaders, and he paid the going price: three thousand dollars for 1,280 acres plus the house, with the soddy thrown in.

It did nothing for her fears to see the other old families foundering as hungry young merchants moved into Bingtown, buying up old holdings and changing the ways things had always been done.

Junior hummed a pop tune to himself, grinning, as he contemplated how the computer in his room at home was busily buying up every spare share of Tarantula stock it could find.

At first, when his banks had contacted him to say that someone was buying up all of Five Star Pacific's short-term notes, he had become suspicious.

A year after they were married, that would be when Cody was sixteen or thereabouts, one of the big building supply outfits from Houston came down to all these little places along the river, buying up small contracting firms.

About five years ago a Portland cement firm came into town and began buying up the little dealers and cutting prices against the rest.