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buy back

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. buy back, repurchaseverb

    buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away

    "He bought back the house that his father sold years ago"

Wiktionary

  1. buy backnoun

    Alternative spelling of buyback.

  2. buy backverb

    to purchase something already sold, misplaced, destroyed or given away

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  1. buy back

    A buy back is a business strategy where a company repurchases its own outstanding shares from the open market to reduce the amount of available shares. This is often done to increase the value of the remaining shares, distribute surplus cash to shareholders, or to prevent other shareholders from taking a controlling stake.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of buy back in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of buy back in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of buy back in a Sentence

  1. Chief Executive Louis Vachon:

    If our stock is trading again at what we consider accretive levels for us to buy it back, we'd like to be in a position to do that sooner as opposed to later, below 10 times earnings we feel that it is significantly accretive for us to buy back our shares.

  2. Mike Petters:

    You can buy back shares, raise your dividend, you can do lots of stuff that will actually affect the perceived value of your company, but they're not investments that are creating new value inside your business, that's an environment that we're all struggling with now.

  3. David Santschi:

    Companies tend to buy back more when they’re feeling confident and they tend to buy back less when they’re feeling less confident.

  4. Spokesman Anton Buijs:

    We need to buy back gas we have sold already.

  5. Victor Carlström:

    If I had already sold, I would definitely not buy back before we have the facts.


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