REPURCHASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does repurchase mean? 

• REPURCHASE (noun)
  The noun REPURCHASE has 1 sense:

1. the act of purchasing back something previously sold

  Familiarity information: REPURCHASE used as a noun is very rare.

• REPURCHASE (verb)
  The verb REPURCHASE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: REPURCHASE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPURCHASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of purchasing back something previously sold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

buyback; redemption; repurchase

Hypernyms ("repurchase" is a kind of...):

purchase (the acquisition of something for payment)

Derivation:

repurchase (buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away)

• REPURCHASE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they repurchase    ... he / she / it repurchases   
Past simple: repurchased   
Past participle: repurchased   
-ing form: repurchasing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

buy back; repurchase

Context example:

He bought back the house that his father sold years ago

Hypernyms (to "repurchase" is one way to...):

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

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

repurchase (the act of purchasing back something previously sold)

 Context examples 

The fact is, Copperfield, I was unable to repurchase them at the time of their seizure; in the first place, because the broker, having an idea that I wanted them, ran the price up to an extravagant extent; and, in the second place, because I—hadn't any money.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)