repurchase

From re- + purchase.

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.
   • 1955 December, H. C. Casserley, “Pre-Grouping Locomotives on British Railways—4”, in Railway Magazine, page 822:

     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.

repurchase (countable and uncountable, plural repurchases)

1. The act of repurchasing.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “repurchase”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “repurchase”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.