buy back
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]buy back (third-person singular simple present buys back, present participle buying back, simple past and past participle bought back)
- To purchase (something already sold, misplaced, destroyed, or given away).
- Investors have already started buying back shares they had sold last year in an effort to increase their profits.
- (of money) To be used to purchase (something already sold, misplaced, destroyed, or given away).
- The profits from the new software version bought back the division that'd earlier been sold off by the company.
- 2007, Sally Seltmann, Feist, “1234”, in The Reminder[1], performed by Feist:
- One, two, three, four, five, six, nine, or ten
Money can't buy you back the love that you had then