Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An act of buying something that one previously sold or owned.
- noun The repurchase of stock by the company that issued it, as to reduce holdings of a single investor or increase the value of shares by reducing their number.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
repurchase of something previouslysold , especially ofstock by the company that issued it. - noun A government purchase scheme intended to achieve a specific goal such as habitat protection or a reduction in firearm numbers.
- noun A free drink given to a patron by a
bartender .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of purchasing back something previously sold
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word buyback.
Examples
-
The firm believes the share buyback is already priced into the stock and shares are once again fairly valued.
Archer Daniels Dips On Credit Suisse Downgrade MarketNewsVideo.com 2010
-
A share buyback is a quick way to make a stock more attractive to Wall Street.
U.S. companies buy back stock in droves as they hold record levels of cash Jia Lynn Yang 2010
-
The idea of a gun buyback is to reduce the supply of guns in Oakland.
-
The idea of a gun buyback is to reduce the supply of guns in Oakland.
-
Garb will sign a full long-term buyback agreement on all output produced.
-
The stock buyback translates into $0.70 / share for the quarter, which could have been paid as a cash dividend.
-
But, following a sale, deals are made quietly by all parties: Consignors of bought-in lots, especially those with reserve prices, may owe the auctioneer money -- called a "buyback" -- for various fees, such as for catalog photography, outside expertise, insurance and shipping.
-
exposure to private-label buyback requests because Bank of America has had only limited experience with a motley crew of litigious counterparties.
-
The difference between what we would have had in cash in 2008 and the buyback was the difference between going through the downturn fairly sanguine and unfortunately having to raise equity.
CBRE's Chief Talks Property Peter Grant 2011
-
Credit Suisse analyst Larry Gandler called the buyback amount "unbelievable" given the company had A$1 billion of spare balance sheet capacity from which it could draw.
Foster's Returns Money to Shareholders Cynthia Koons 2011
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.