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Repurchase

Repurchase \Re*pur"chase\ (r?*p?r"ch?s; 48), v. t. To buy back or again; to regain by purchase.
--Sir M. Hale.

Repurchase

Repurchase \Re*pur"chase\, n. The act of repurchasing.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
repurchase

1590s, from re- + purchase (v.). Related: Repurchased; repurchasing.

Wiktionary
repurchase

n. The act of repurchasing. vb. To buy back or again; to regain by purchase.

WordNet
repurchase
  1. n. the act of purchasing back something previously sold [syn: redemption, buyback]

  2. v. buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away; "He bought back the house that his father sold years ago" [syn: buy back]

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Usage examples of "repurchase".

Jeddy and I handed down Lady Ransome, and I gave Cephas Cluff his final orders: to head for Nantes and sell the Pembroke to the Latours for one hundred francs, so she might lie safe at her French quay, and be readily repurchased when all danger of seizure was past.

He will repurchase the Hotel de Sairmeuse, and furnish it magnificently.

There were loan-outs, buybacks, reverse repurchase agreements for contracts based on projected earnings.

And if You complained or insulted the Management Committee, they lould make repurchase of the partnership interest very difficult, stretching Out the repurchase period over many years and negotiating and renegotiating the purchase price downward as you needed the cash.

It was a testimony to the high mental power and adept deceitfulness of grandfather-to-the-nineteenth that Rod McBan CXXX had inflicted only symbolic breakage on his favorite treasures, some of which were not even in the categories allowed for repurchase, like offworld drama-cubes, and had been able to hide his things in an unimportant corner of his fields hide them so well that neither robbers nor police had thought of them for the hundreds of years that followed.

Wall Street, it is impossible to prevent the repetition of those acts by which in five years I have accumulated a billion dollars, impossible so long as a short sale or a repurchase and resale, is allowed.

When short sales, and repurchases and resales, are made impossible, stock speculation will be dead.

Square Mile Area should be repurchased and returned to a natural state.

They put it on a strip of land rightfully repurchased from a white farmer.

Following the war, the Ruhr Valley interests repurchased from the Weimar government.

Commonwealth authorities, to be repurchased by their owners only at a reevaluation two hundred thousand times higher than their assessed worth.

At the close, most of the sellers, had they been granted another five minutes, would have repurchased, even at a loss, what they had sold, for it looked as though they had sold themselves into a trap.

I walked to the lot, repurchased my old pickup and took the fastest route through a light rain toward the Sunshine Turnpike, swallowing the little bits of acid that kept collecting in the back of my throat.

And Beauchene had even reserved to himself the right of repurchasing that share within a certain period.

True, there was a clause in the covenant which admitted, so long as that covenant should not be broken, the possibility of repurchasing all the shares at one and the same time.