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buyback noun

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Definition

when a business or person sells something, especially shares (= equal parts of its ownership) and then buys them again according to a fixed agreement
His company have just announced a $1 billion stock buyback.

(Definition of buyback noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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