Wiktionary
alt. to purchase something already sold, misplaced, destroyed or given away n. (alternative spelling of buyback English) vb. to purchase something already sold, misplaced, destroyed or given away
WordNet
v. buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away; "He bought back the house that his father sold years ago" [syn: repurchase]
Usage examples of "buy back".
Suppose even that he could conceal the name of the real criminal, and show himself guiltless of the crime for which he had been condemned, all the wealth in the world could not buy back that blissful ignorance of evil which had once been his.
He bought me, at last, and promised to do all he could to find and buy back my children.
He had intended to buy back his familys share in the skipjack, and he could have done so, for Caveny offered it, but now a skipjack was selling for six thousand and there was no possibility of repurchase.
He saw the proud rage of Bill, with his money in the Sidney Exchange, bigger than many station owners had, waiting his time to buy back on the land which his father had left.
The thirty florins he had brought to Rome to buy back his Bambino were lightening in his pouch.
If we haven't got him on the run by Friday afternoon you buy back in, just before closing, and we've failed.
That's when I decide to buy back in and perhaps lose your 2 million-or we confer and continue the surge?
And he was going to use his power to destroy the Earl of Struan and buy back some of the clan lands.
Such knowledge was a golden nugget, valuable enough, perhaps, to buy back his own life.
No, labour consumes all of the total product that its wages will buy back.