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REPURCHASE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does repurchase mean?
• REPURCHASE (noun)
The noun REPURCHASE has 1 sense:
1. the act of purchasing back something previously sold
Familiarity information: REPURCHASE used as a noun is very rare.
• REPURCHASE (verb)
The verb REPURCHASE has 1 sense:
1. buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away
Familiarity information: REPURCHASE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of purchasing back something previously sold
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
buyback; redemption; repurchase
Hypernyms ("repurchase" is a kind of...):
purchase (the acquisition of something for payment)
Derivation:
repurchase (buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away)
Conjugation: |
Past simple: repurchased
Past participle: repurchased
-ing form: repurchasing
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 "repurchase" is one way to...):
buy; purchase (obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
repurchase (the act of purchasing back something previously sold)
Context examples
The fact is, Copperfield, I was unable to repurchase them at the time of their seizure; in the first place, because the broker, having an idea that I wanted them, ran the price up to an extravagant extent; and, in the second place, because I—hadn't any money.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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