buyback

See also: buy-back and buy back

English

Etymology

Deverbal from buy back.

Noun

buyback (countable and uncountable, plural buybacks)

1. The repurchase of something previously sold, especially of stock by the company that issued it.

   Antonym: sellback

   • 2025 September 12, “Infosys announces biggest-ever share buyback of ₹18,000 cr. The buyback, through the tender offer, is its biggest ever since the company's listing”, in The Hindu‎:

     Infosys Ltd., Bengaluru-based tech services and digital transformation firm, has announced its biggest-ever share buyback of ₹18,000 crore at a 19% premium, as per a regulatory filing it made in the late evening on Thursday. […] This is Infosys' 5th buyback. Earlier, it had announced buybacks worth ₹13,000 crore in 2017, ₹ 8,260 crore in 2019, ₹9,200 crore in 2021 and ₹9,300 crore in 2023.

2. A government purchase scheme intended to achieve a specific goal such as habitat protection or a reduction in firearm numbers.
3. (countable) A free drink given to a patron by a bartender.

Translations

repurchase of something previously sold

Finnish: takaisinosto (fi) French: rétrocession (fr) f Icelandic: endurkaup n pl Polish: wykup (pl) m Spanish: recompra f, recompra accionaria f (stocks) Swedish: återköp n