repurchase

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ purchase.

Verb

repurchase (third-person singular simple present repurchases, present participle repurchasing, simple past and past participle repurchased)

1. To buy back or again; to regain by purchase.
   • 1955 December, H. C. Casserley, “Pre-Grouping Locomotives on British Railways—4”, in Railway Magazine, page 822:

     Fortunately, however, there was another of the class still in existence, which had been sold years ago to the East Kent Light Railway, and in 1946 the Southern was able to repurchase this engine and all three are now actively engaged in turn on the branch as B.R. Nos. 30582 to 30584.

Derived terms

• repurchaser

Translations

to buy back

Finnish: ostaa takaisin Greek: επαναγοράζω (el) (epanagorázo) Latin: redimō Manx: aachionnee Polish: odkupywać impf, odkupić (pl) pf

Noun

repurchase (countable and uncountable, plural repurchases)

1. The act of repurchasing.

Translations

act of repurchasing

Finnish: takaisinosto (fi) (same object); jälleenhankinta (similar object) Greek: επαναγορά (el) f (epanagorá) Manx: aachionnaghey m Polish: odkup (pl) m

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “repurchase”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “repurchase”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.