"buy back" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: buys back [present, singular, third-person], buying back [participle, present], bought back [participle, past], bought back [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|buy<,,bought> back}} buy back (third-person singular simple present buys back, present participle buying back, simple past and past participle bought back)
  1. to purchase something already sold, misplaced, destroyed or given away Derived forms: buyback, buy-back Translations (repurchase): 買回 /买回 (mǎihuí) (Chinese Mandarin), 回購 /回购 (huígòu) (Chinese Mandarin), 贖回 /赎回 (shúhuí) (Chinese Mandarin), 返銷 /返销 (fǎnxiāo) (Chinese Mandarin), reaĉeti (Esperanto), ostaa takaisin (Finnish), redimō (Latin), odkupywać [imperfective] (Polish), odkupić [perfective] (Polish), выкупа́ть (vykupátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), вы́купить (výkupitʹ) [perfective] (Russian)

Inflected forms

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          "code": "la",
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          "sense": "repurchase",
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          "sense": "repurchase",
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          "roman": "vykupátʹ",
          "sense": "repurchase",
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      "roman": "mǎihuí",
      "sense": "repurchase",
      "word": "買回 /买回"
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      "roman": "huígòu",
      "sense": "repurchase",
      "word": "回購 /回购"
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      "roman": "shúhuí",
      "sense": "repurchase",
      "word": "贖回 /赎回"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fǎnxiāo",
      "sense": "repurchase",
      "word": "返銷 /返销"
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      "sense": "repurchase",
      "word": "reaĉeti"
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      "sense": "repurchase",
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    },
    {
      "code": "la",
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      "sense": "repurchase",
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      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "repurchase",
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "repurchase",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "odkupić"
    },
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vykupátʹ",
      "sense": "repurchase",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "выкупа́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "výkupitʹ",
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