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单词 to buy up
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to buy up
to buy up
1. transitive. To pay to acquire all or a large amount of (a commodity, stock, etc.), typically so as to remove from the market or control the supply.
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1463–5 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Apr. 1463 §56. m. 43 The seid people..have comme into this londe..and bought up by the handes of their gardes, hostes and guydes, the grete and chief stuffe of Englissh hornes unwrought of tanners and bochers.
1533–4 Act 25 Henry VIII c. 4 §1 in Statutes of Realm (1963) III. 440 They bye up all maner of fyshe thether brought.
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 52v Wee have them..that would buy them vp by the whole sale, and make them away againe by retaile.
1622 E. Misselden Free Trade 56 Another who bought vp all the Iron in Sicilia.
1624 J. Gee Foot out of Snare 48 The most of these Books..were bought-vp by Papists.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 15 Mar. (1974) VIII. 113 Buying up of goods in case there should be war.
1701 W. Wotton Hist. Rome 214 Cleander had bought up all the Corn.
1867 R. Patterson in Fortn. Rev. July 77 An..appeal to the State to buy up all the railways in the kingdom.
1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. I. xiii. 630 John..was buying up help on every side.
1920 Hull Daily Mail 1 Mar. 3/6 All flour in stock has been bought up, and double the quantity could have been sold.
2010 D. Porter Humphrey Bogart ii. 140 Later in life Bogie threatened to buy up all copies of the film and have them all destroyed.
2. transitive. To absorb or take control of (a business, a company's assets) by purchase.
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1845 Colonial Gaz. 31 May 333/1 Lord Stanley will not deny..that he wished to buy up the Company's interests—to tempt the Company to separate themselves from the colonists, and for a pecuniary reward leave natives and settlers to their fate.
1863 Proc. Town Council Borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1862–3 367 If they borrowed money to buy up the company, they could only offer one security for that money.
2014 Daily Tel. 10 Sept. (Business section) 6/4 Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma has been on an acquisition binge during the past two years, buying up 29 companies for a total of $16bn.
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