BUYBACK

redemption, repurchase, buyback

(noun) the act of purchasing back something previously sold

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

buyback (plural buybacks)

The repurchase of something previously sold, especially of stock by the company that issued it.

A government purchase scheme intended to achieve a specific goal such as habitat protection or a reduction in firearm numbers.

A free drink given to a patron by a bartender.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

10 June 2025

COMMUNICATIONS

(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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