buy up

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To buy the whole of; to purchase the entire stock of something. idiomatic,transitive
    — The marshland was bought up by a housing company.
  2. To buy whatever is available of something. idiomatic,transitive
    — According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
  3. To buy off; to pay in blackmail money or similar. idiomatic,transitive
    — Sir Leicester Dedlock, Baronet, it's for you to consider whether or not to buy this up. I should recommend, on the whole, it's being bought up myself; and I think it may be bought pretty cheap.

词形变化

buys up present,singular,third-person buying up participle,present bought up participle,past bought up past

词源

From buy + up.
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