"buy up" meaning in English

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        "To buy the whole of; to purchase the entire stock of something."
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          "text": "According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents 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.",
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        "To buy whatever is available of something."
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        "(idiomatic, transitive) To buy whatever is available of something."
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        "To buy off; to pay in blackmail money or similar."
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        "(idiomatic, transitive) To buy off; to pay in blackmail money or similar."
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