Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Buy Up

(To). To purchase stock to such an amount as to obtain a virtual monopoly, and thus command the market; to make a corner, as “to buy up corn,” etc.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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