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Repurchase

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To buy (something) again.

n. The act of buying something that one previously sold or owned.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To buy back or again; to regain by purchase.

n. The act of repurchasing.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To buy back or again; to regain by purchase.

n. The act of repurchasing.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To purchase back or again; buy back; regain by purchase or expenditure.

n. The act of buying again; the purchase again of what has been sold.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the act of purchasing back something previously sold

v. buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away

Word Usage

"We have initiated a series of twenty-eight-day single-tranche term repurchase transactions with primary dealers, expected to cumulate to $100 billion outstanding, in which dealers may offer any of the types of collateral that are eligible for conventional open market operations."

Verb Form

repurchased repurchases repurchasing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

purchase buy

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

purchase

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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