buy back

English

Alternative forms

• buyback, buy-back (noun only)

Verb

buy back

1. to purchase something already sold, misplaced, destroyed or given away

   Investors have already started buying back shares they had sold last year in an effort to increase their profits.

Translations

repurchase

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 買回 (cmn), 买回 (cmn) (mǎihuí), 回購 (cmn), 回购 (cmn) (huígòu), 贖回 (cmn), 赎回 (cmn) (shúhuí), 返銷 (cmn), 返销 (cmn) (fǎnxiāo)

• Finnish: ostaa takaisin
• Russian: выкупать (ru) (vykypát') impf., выкупить (ru) (výkypit') pf.

Noun

buy back

1. Alternative spelling of buyback.