buy up

1. 1.

   take over ownership of; of corporations and companies

   Synonymstake overbuy out

   Broaderbuy

Questions about buy up

What does buy up mean?

buy up means "take over ownership of; of corporations and companies".

What is another word for buy up?

Close synonyms include take over, buy out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is buy up a common word?

buy up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.