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buyback definition - finance
  1. The purchase of a companyÂ’s stock by that company.
  2. The purchase of a position to offset a previously established short position.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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