buy back

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buy back

verb buys back · buying back · bought back

  1. To purchase (something already sold, misplaced, destroyed, or given away). Investors have already started buying back shares they had sold last year in an effort to increase their profits.
  2. of money To be used to purchase (something already sold, misplaced, destroyed, or given away). The profits from the new software version bought back the division that'd earlier been sold off by the company.

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verb repurchase

中文買回 /买回 mǎihuí, 回購 /回购 huígòu, 贖回 /赎回 shúhuí, 返銷 /返销 fǎnxiāo
Русскийвыкупа́ть vykupátʹ, вы́купить výkupitʹ

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@misc{buy_back_2026,
  title = {buy back},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/buy%20back},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}