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repurchasing

repurchasing is the present participle and gerund of repurchase.

Meaning of repurchase

Verb

repurchase (third-person singular simple present repurchases, present participle repurchasing, simple past and past participle repurchased)

  1. To buy back or again; to regain by purchase.
    • Fortunately, however, there was another of the class still in existence, which had been sold years ago to the East Kent Light Railway, and in 1946 the Southern was able to repurchase this engine and all three are now actively engaged in turn on the branch as B.R. Nos. 30582 to 30584.1955 December, H. C. Casserley, “Pre-Grouping Locomotives on British Railways—4”, in Railway Magazine, page 822

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Questions about repurchasing

What is repurchasing the present participle and gerund of?
Repurchasing is the present participle and gerund of repurchase.

Words near repurchasing in the dictionary

  1. repurchase
  2. repurchased
  3. repurchaser
  4. repurchasers
  5. repurchases
  6. repurchasing
  7. repure
  8. repured
  9. repures
  10. repurge
  11. repurged

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