buy back

1. To purchase (something already sold, misplaced, destroyed, or given away).

   Investors have already started buying back shares they had sold last year in an effort to increase their profits.

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

2. To be used to purchase (something already sold, misplaced, destroyed, or given away).

   The profits from the new software version bought back the division that'd earlier been sold off by the company.

   выкупа́тьvykupátʹ, вы́купитьvýkupitʹ

1. I want to buy my car back.

   deIch möchte mein Auto zurückkaufen.

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2. I want to buy my bike back.

   deIch möchte mein Fahrrad zurückkaufen.

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3. I want to buy my house back.

   ruЯ хочу выкупить свой дом обратно.

   deIch will mein Haus zurückkaufen.

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4. It cost him five pounds to buy it back.

   deEs kostete ihn fünf Pfund, es zurückzukaufen.

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5. Can I buy back my old guitar from you?

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irregular · Lesson

• buy offвартуватиTo pay off, convince to refrain etc. by corrupt payment or other service.
• buy upTo buy the whole of; to purchase the entire stock of something.
• buy outTo purchase the entire stock or extent of something
• buy inTo accept an idea as valid; to join in on a concept.
• buy downTo reduce a mortgage interest rate by means of a buydown.
• buy backTo purchase (something already sold, misplaced, destroyed, or given away).
• buy overTo gain the support of (a person) through bribery.
• buy intoTo believe (something, especially something implausible); to accept (a craze, fad, or notion) as valid.