buy up | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,transitive)Tobuythe whole of; to purchase the entire stock of something.The marshland wasbought upby a housing company.; (idiomatic,transitive)To buy whatever is available of something.2013June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, inThe Economist, volume407, number8839, page55:According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world,buying uppatents 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.; (idiomatic,transitive)Tobuy off; to pay inblackmailmoney or similar.1852March –1853September,Charles Dickens,Bleak House, London:Bradbury and Evans,[…], published1853,→OCLC:Sir Leicester Dedlock, Baronet, it's for you to consider whether or not tobuy this up. I should recommend, on the whole, it's beingbought upmyself; and I think it may be bought pretty cheap.

Examples:

EN: Wherever you notice Schomburg's influence buy up and act in opposition.
ES: por todas partes notará la influencia de Schomburg, compre y juegue en su contra.
EN: Wish I knew who it was that's trying to buy up our stock.
ES: Ojalá supiera quién intenta comprar nuestras acciones.
EN: I'll buy up that Jordan stock through dummies.
ES: Compraré las acciones de Jordan con títeres.
EN: I'd like to buy up some kind of business for fisherman.
ES: Me gustaría comprar algún tipo de negocio para pescadores.
EN: ♪ I'll buy up all the public schools in sight ♪
ES: ♪ Voy a comprar todas las escuelas públicas que vea ♪
EN: How clever you were to buy up all his debt.
ES: Dos veces al día.
EN: In Germany, we buy up Blumenthals, Moyers, and the Allgemeine Chemische Fabrik... and amalgamate as the All-German Dyestuff Combine.
ES: En Alemania, compramos Blumenthals, Moyers y Allgemeine Chemische Fabrik... y las fusionamos en la Alianza Alemana del Teñido.
EN: You can buy up half of New York, and all you have to do is sit back and draw dividends.
ES: Puedes comprar la mitad de N.Y., y sólo tienes que percibir dividendos.
EN: They buy up every part and parcel of land they can lay their hands to.
ES: Compran todos los terrenos que pueden.
EN: You can buy up the land with a bale of dirt-cheap land scrip.
ES: Puedes comprar la tierra a un precio irisorio.
EN: I'll buy up the police force too.
ES: También compraré a la fuerza policial.
EN: I'm gonna buy up the whole shebang.
ES: - Claro. He venido a comprarle esto a Peck.
EN: Grimbaum warned me that at 3,000, the bank will buy up everything to halt the drop.
ES: A 3.000, la gran banca lo comprará todo, detendrá la bajada.
EN: Germany is making every effort at the moment to buy up the Arabs.
ES: Alemania está haciendo lo posible para comprar a los árabes.
EN: All they buy up here is fish.
ES: Y todo lo que hay aquí son pescados.

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