buyback

or buy-back

[ bahy-bak ]
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noun
  1. the buying of something that one previously sold.

  2. any arrangement to take back something as a condition of a sale, as by a supplier who agrees to purchase its customer's goods.

  1. Also called stock buyback. a repurchase by a company of its own stock in the open market, as for investment purposes or for use in future corporate acquisitions.

Origin of buyback

1
First recorded in 1960–65; noun use of the verb phrase buy back

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British Dictionary definitions for buy-back

buy-back

/ (ˈbaɪˌbæk) /


noun
  1. commerce the repurchase by a company of some or all of its shares from an investor, who acquired them by putting venture capital into the company when it was formed

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