Buy back

Verb

Word Frequency: 0.4

Definitions

1.VerbTo 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.VerbTo 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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