repurchase

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repurchase - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Repurchase \Re*pur"chase\ (r?*p?r"ch?s; 48), v. t.
     To buy back or again; to regain by purchase. --Sir M. Hale.
     [1913 Webster]

  Repurchase \Re*pur"chase\, n.
     The act of repurchasing.
     [1913 Webster]

repurchase - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  repurchase
      n 1: the act of purchasing back something previously sold [syn:
           redemption, repurchase, buyback]
      v 1: buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away; "He
           bought back the house that his father sold years ago" [syn:
           buy back, repurchase]