Similar words: buy, buy out, buyer, buy off, buying, pay up, lay up, dry up. Meaning: v. take over ownership of; of corporations and companies.
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31. The TARP as originally conceived was to buy up toxic assets off the bank balance sheets.
32. If meat producers buy up crops to feed to animals, poor people any food to eat.
33. So what I would try to do is buy up lots of tickets, run them through my scanning machine, and then try to return the unscratched losers.
34. Banna in the tropical crop research institute can buy up the processing of Coffea arabica, is the best gift to friends and relatives.
35. The partnership tried to Buy up all the stock holdings.
36. It might seem strange for a company focused on cloud computing and virtualization to buy up one whose core is enterprise application management.
37. Well, what did you do, buy up all the control heads in Houston?
38. Buy up the whole of the paper shop this morning?
39. They also don't seem as determined to buy up agricultural land as voraciously in Latin America as China has begun to do in recent years.