BUY BACK

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away

Example:

He bought back the house that his father sold years ago

Synonyms:

buy back; repurchase

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "buy back" is one way to...):

buy; purchase (obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

buyback (the act of purchasing back something previously sold)