🎲 Extra tournament entry 🎲 To re-enter game 🔁 To buy again

to rebuy

7.2

To pay to enter a tournament again, usually by buying chips

verb
/ˌriːˈbaɪ/

Jargon

: recomprar

He decided to rebuy some more chips so he could continue playing blackjack.

Examples

If you run out of chips in the game, you can rebuy another stack to keep competing.
You then rebuy your ship and have to rebuy insurance.

Blog text (7)
You then rebuy your ship and have to rebuy insurance.

Blog text (7)
Some Tesla, most retail sell in December to tax loss harvest and most retail rebuy in January, probably because of tax loss harvesting.
And there's a potential that flip either comes in January when people start rebuying after their tax loss harvesting.
After losing all my chips, I had to rebuy my entry to the poker tournament.

Surface Forms

rebuy infinitive

rebuying present participle

rebuyes third person singular

rebought past

rebought past participle

Morphology

rebuy = buy (semi-transparent) = re + buy

The meaning builds on 'buy again', but the specialized gambling sense of paying for more chips or re-entry is not fully predictable for a general learner.

Etymology

Rebuy comes from the prefix re- ('again') and the word buy ('purchase'), so as a verb it means to 'buy again'; in poker it means to buy more chips or pay to re-enter and keep playing.