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Definition of Buy back
1. Verb. Buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away. "He bought back the house that his father sold years ago"
Definition of Buy back
1. Verb. to purchase something already sold, misplaced, destroyed or given away ¹
2. Noun. Alternative spelling of buyback. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Buy Back
Literary usage of Buy back
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. OECD Public Debt Markets: Trend and Recent Structural Changes by Oecd, Asian Productivity Organization, (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope, SourceOECD (Online service) (2002)
"Buy-back and switching operations In buy-back operations the central government
... In recent years, EU member states have been increasingly using buy-back ..."
2. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"Yes, I thought, watching the line shift to and fro, break and re-form, we would
buy back Cashmere from the drunken imbecile who was turning it into a hell, ..."
3. The South Carolina Historical Magazine by South Carolina Historical Society (1906)
"and members can buy back numbers or duplicates at 75c. each. In addition to
receiving the Magazines, members are allowed a discount of 25 per cent, ..."
4. A Cyclopædic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language Spoken in British Central by David Clement Ruffelle Scott (1892)
"... buy back a knife, if it is lost and another finds it, the one who lost it ...
ku, TO RANSOM, REDEEM; to free a person, or to buy back anything in pawn ..."
5. Valencia and Murcia: A Glance at African Spain by Albert Frederick Calvert (1911)
"... on rebuilding the town four years later, was to buy back the exiled inhabitants.
Two thousand years later Saguntum was once again the theatre of war, ..."
6. OECD Economics Glossary: English-French = Glossaire de L'économie de L'OCDE by Oecd, SourceOECD (Online service) (2006)
"'buy-back', 2e sens] [FIN] equity buyback obligation rights (EBOR) droit temporaire
de revente d'actions [FIN] buyer acheteur ; client ; acquéreur ; comm is ..."
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