Buy up
Buy up verb - Take over ownership of; of corporations and companies.
Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
Both terms in one sentence
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In Umineko: When They Cry, you find out that Kinzo used a special scheme to buy up Rokkenjima against the laws of the Japanese government, and then bribed a bunch of people in order to keep it.
Source: Screw the Rules, I Have Money! -
The latter becomes a plot point when the Machine (acting via a front company) attempts to buy up all the remaining payphones in New York just to keep them operating.
Source: Pay Phone -
Major auto and tire manufacturers (Ford, Chrysler, Firestone, et al), fearful that efficient public transit would keep people from buying their products, would buy up streetcar companies and then liquidate them, effectively destroying a profitable mode of transportation for the American public.
Source: Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
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