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BUY BACK
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away
Example:
He bought back the house that his father sold years ago
Synonyms:
buy back; repurchase
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "buy back" is one way to...):
buy; purchase (obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
buyback (the act of purchasing back something previously sold)
