repurchase

Other forms of repurchase

plural

repurchases·

past tense

repurchased·

present participle

repurchasing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about repurchase

What does repurchase mean?

repurchase means "the act of purchasing back something previously sold". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in repurchase?

repurchase has 3 syllables: re-pur-chase. The stress falls on "pur". In IPA it is /ɹiˈpɝtʃəs/.

What is another word for repurchase?

Close synonyms include redemption, buyback, buy back. 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 repurchase a common word?

repurchase is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with repurchase?

1 word rhymes with repurchase. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.