repurchase

verb, noun — 2 senses

repurchase

verb

Etymology From re- + purchase.

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:
Derived terms
repurchaser

repurchase

noun

Etymology From re- + purchase.

1

The act of repurchasing.

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