buy backs

Verb

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).
   • Investors have already started buying back shares they had sold last year in an effort to increase their profits.
2. 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.