buy sth up
— Phrasal Verb with buy /baɪ/ verb [T] (past tense and past participle bought)Definition
› to quickly buy a lot of something, often all that is available: Most of the land in the area has been bought up by property developers.
(Definition of buy sth up from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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