buy back

1. 1.

   buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away

   “He bought back the house that his father sold years ago”

   Synonymsrepurchase

   Broaderbuy

Questions about buy back

What does buy back mean?

buy back means "buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away".

What is another word for buy back?

Close synonyms include repurchase. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is buy back a common word?

buy back is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.