buy back en · VERB
Meanings
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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.
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(of money) To be used to purchase (something already sold, misplaced, destroyed, or given away).
One, two, three, four, five, six, nine, or ten Money can't buy you back the love that you had then
2007, Sally Seltmann, Feist, “1234”, in The Reminder, performed by Feist:The profits from the new software version bought back the division that'd earlier been sold off by the company.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| buys back | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| buying back | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| bought back | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| bought back | Tense=Past | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (11)
eo reaĉeti (repurchase) · ru выкупа́ть (repurchase) · cmn 贖回 /赎回 (repurchase) · la redimō (repurchase) · cmn 回購 /回购 (repurchase) · pl odkupić (repurchase) · pl odkupywać (repurchase) · ru вы́купить (repurchase) · cmn 買回 /买回 (repurchase) · cmn 返銷 /返销 (repurchase) · fi ostaa takaisin (repurchase)