buyback

plural buybacks

1. countableuncountableThe repurchase of something previously sold, especially of stock by the company that issued it.

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   Stock buybacks are controversial—they usually come from a company that is stalled or whose growth is decelerating. With buybacks, a CEO is making a rather incredible statement. She's saying: The market is wrong. It's valuing our company so incorrectly, and clearly has so little idea where we are heading, that we're going to spend the company's precious cash on a bet that they're wrong.

   2016, Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy, page 167

   Infosys Ltd., Bengaluru-based tech services and digital transformation firm, has announced its biggest-ever share buyback of ₹18,000 crore at a 19% premium, as per a regulatory filing it made in the late evening on Thursday. […] This is Infosys' 5th buyback. Earlier, it had announced buybacks worth ₹13,000 crore in 2017, ₹ 8,260 crore in 2019, ₹9,200 crore in 2021 and ₹9,300 crore in 2023.

   2025 September 12, “Infosys announces biggest-ever share buyback of ₹18,000 cr. The buyback, through the tender offer, is its biggest ever since the company's listing”, in The Hindu

   Antonyms: sellback

2. countableuncountableA government purchase scheme intended to achieve a specific goal such as habitat protection or a reduction in firearm numbers.
3. countableA free drink given to a patron by a bartender.