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Meaning of buy back | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To purchase (something already sold, misplaced, destroyed, or given away).
  2. To be used to purchase (something already sold, misplaced, destroyed, or given away).

Equivalents

Deutsch zurückkaufen
日本語 かいもどす
Latina redimo
ไทย ไถ่

Examples

“Investors have already started buying back shares they had sold last year in an effort to increase their profits.”
“The profits from the new software version bought back the division that'd earlier been sold off by the company.”
“One, two, three, four, five, six, nine, or ten Money can't buy you back the love that you had then”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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