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Repurchase   /ripˈərtʃəs/   Listen
Repurchase

noun
1.
The act of purchasing back something previously sold.  Synonyms: buyback, redemption.
verb
1.
Buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away.  Synonym: buy back.






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"Repurchase" Quotes from Famous Books



... chiefly supported two aged parents: I loved them as my own; and the desire of contributing to their support was an additional spur to my endeavors to repurchase the boat. I entered myself as a day-laborer in the garden of our squire; and my wife was called occasionally to perform some services at the house, and employed herself in needle-work, spinning, or knitting at home. Not a moment in the day was suffered to pass unemployed. ...
— Stories for the Young - Or, Cheap Repository Tracts: Entertaining, Moral, and Religious. Vol. VI. • Hannah More

... $75,000,000 of stock was worth more than the amount it had been capitalized for. Furthermore, I was also promised that the $5,000,000 cash to be taken from the public should be kept intact, and in my handling of the market it should always be available for the repurchase from the investors of what had been sold to them, at the price which they had paid ...
— Frenzied Finance - Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated • Thomas W. Lawson

... looked at the ceiling. But when he had picked up the meaning of the dealer's outcry—that the three autograph letters of Charles V., sold by Madame Astier to Bos and by him transferred to Huchenard, were asserted not to be genuine—he said with a disdainful smile, that he would readily repurchase them, as he regarded them with a confidence not to be affected by any ...
— The Immortal - Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 • Alphonse Daudet

... purchases of foreign securities by us, or repurchase of our own securities abroad, calling for large amounts of exchange ...
— Elements of Foreign Exchange - A Foreign Exchange Primer • Franklin Escher

... slaves of Georgia or any other state leave their masters, the Federal Government has no constitutional authority to employ our army or navy for their recapture, or to apply the national treasure to repurchase them." There could be no question of the fact that the war was very largely one over fugitive slaves. Under date October 28, 1834, General Thompson wrote to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs: "There ...
— A Social History of the American Negro • Benjamin Brawley


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