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Discover LudwigThe word "repurchasing" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the act of buying something again, after previously owning or using it. For example: "We decided to take advantage of the offer and repurchased the sofa we had sold a few years ago".
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repurchasing
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Present participle of repurchase
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The new law requires a firm issuing them to own enough of its shares to cover the options on the issue date, rather than repurchasing shares from time to time as options come due.
Its strategy for redeploying this money can be summarised in three words: shrink, buy, deter.In the past two and a half years, Georgia-Pacific has spent $700m repurchasing 13% of its outstanding equity.
Established companies are repurchasing their shares to meet the demands of their employees.
Many companies prefer, for tax reasons, to pass on profits to their investors by repurchasing some of their shares.From their model, Messrs Fama and French calculate that, from 1872 to 1999, the expected equity premium over "risk-free" bonds averaged 3.6% a year, nearly 60% below the actual premium.
In 2014 Apple spent more on repurchasing stock than the top 500 Asian firms combined.
Jim Chanos, a short-seller who helped expose the Enron scandal, says the rate at which firms are repurchasing their shares is reckless.Eye of newt and toe of frogThe "sorcery" gibe has rich antecedents.
Traders will test the waters to see whether they can break the European Central Bank's half-hearted commitment to keeping spreads low by repurchasing bonds in the secondary market.
They "lift the hedge" by repurchasing the futures contract at the prevailing futures price when they sell the raw material or the processed good in the spot market.
Many Jews sell their more valuable leaven products to non-Jews before Passover (mekhirat ḥametz), repurchasing the foodstuffs immediately after the holiday.
As we talked, the Times was negotiating to sell a portion of its new headquarters for two hundred and twenty-five million dollars, and lease back the twenty-one floors housing its offices, with the option of repurchasing the space in ten years.
Do I think that any serious Labour Government, certainly in the immediate term, is going to be sitting round the Cabinet table, and, let us say there is two billion pounds to be spent, that the hands are going to go up for it to be spent repurchasing the share capital in the water industry — well, it won't happen, so you may as well not mislead people into thinking that it will".
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