drive a price up

drive a/the/(something's) price up

To cause the price of something to increase. Having this fancy new restaurant in our neighborhood should drive all of our house prices up. A shortage in parts has seriously driven new cars' prices up. Inflation seems to have driven everything's price up!

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drive a price up

 and force something up

to force the price of something upwards. Someone is buying a lot of gold and driving the price up. They are driving up the price.

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