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BUY BACK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does buy back mean?
• BUY BACK (verb)
The verb BUY BACK has 1 sense:
1. buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away
Familiarity information: BUY BACK used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
buy back; repurchase
Context example:
He bought back the house that his father sold years ago
Hypernyms (to "buy back" is one way to...):
buy; purchase (obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
buyback (the act of purchasing back something previously sold)
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