buyback

See also: buy-back and buy back

English

Etymology

Deverbal from buy back.

Noun

buyback (countable and uncountable, plural buybacks)

1. The repurchase of something previously sold, especially of stock by the company that issued it.

   Antonym: sellback

2. A government purchase scheme intended to achieve a specific goal such as habitat protection or a reduction in firearm numbers.
3. (countable) A free drink given to a patron by a bartender.

Translations

repurchase of something previously sold

• Finnish: takaisinosto (fi)
• French: rétrocession (fr) f
• Icelandic: endurkaup n pl
• Polish: wykup (pl) m
• Spanish: recompra f, recompra accionaria f (stocks)
• Swedish: återköp n