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Buy back

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Verb
  1. 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. 2
    buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away wordnet
  3. 3
    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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