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buyback

buyback

13 5.9
An agreement where someone buys back something they sold before, often a company buying its own shares
  • noun
  • /ˈbaɪˌbæk/
  • Specialized
translation icon : recompra
  • After selling their original technology, the firm arranged a buyback to regain control of the assets.
  • buyback program

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Examples

  • The "buy-and-hold investor" holds on to her shares in a buyback and receives a bigger fractional ownership in the company.

    Academic text (2017)
  • And they say we're going to give back a lot of it in dividends or we're going to do big stock buybacks to pump up the price.

  • To me, it's like that industry as well as others, They do this thing where it's like a buyback of their stock.

  • And in fact, there are many companies and they do stock buybacks instead of paying dividends.

  • Things like stock buybacks or moving, moving money between countries have not really raised the wages of most Americans.

  • For corporate buybacks coming to an end, that's right.

  • We started by documenting the rise of buybacks as a form of corporate payout relative to dividends.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Consumers who recycle their containers can redeem the refund value at more than 2,000 buyback recycling centers.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Using data from Compustat, we calculated the buyback yield of the S&P Composite Index for 1971-2014.

    Academic text (2017)
  • The company's board announced a buyback of its shares to increase shareholder value.

Synonyms

redemption
vsbuyback
  • Formal
5 6.0

Buying back something you sold or left with someone to get money

is a more general purchase of previously sold items not limited to pledges
repurchase
vsbuyback
3 4.9

Buying back something that was sold before

is often used by companies reclaiming their own shares or assets
stock buyback
vsbuyback
  • Specialized
1 6.4

A company buying its own shares to raise their value or return money to owners

is a broader action where previously sold things are purchased again not only shares
reacquisition
vsbuyback
7.2

Getting something back that was once lost, sold, or given away

is narrower, focusing on purchases rather than any form of recovery from loss
putback
vsbuyback
  • Formal
9.4

A rule that makes a seller buy back defective loans or goods

is an obligation to return items rather than a voluntary purchase by a buyer

Antonyms

1.0

To give something to someone for money

Surface Forms

buyback singular
buybacks plural

Morphology

buyback = buy + back (transparent) = buy + back

The noun is directly formed from the verb phrase 'buy back' (buy + back) and clearly means the act of buying something previously sold.

Etymology

The word buyback is simply buy + back, where back means 'again' or 'to get back'. So a buyback is when someone buys something they sold before, for example when a company buys back its own shares.