buy back

present singular third person buys back · participle present buying back · participle past bought back · past bought 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.

2. To be used to purchase (something already sold, misplaced, destroyed, or given away).

   The profits from the new software version bought back the division that'd earlier been sold off by the company.

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   One, two, three, four, five, six, nine, or ten Money can't buy you back the love that you had then

   2007, Sally Seltmann, Feist, “1234”, in The Reminder, performed by Feist