English-French translations for buy back

• racheter
  Mais ils voulaient que, nous, nous rachetions, que nous payions pour racheter nos appellations d’origine. Yet they wanted us to buy back – to pay in order to buy back – our designations of origin.
  Vous ne nous avez pas autorisés à racheter Alcan, alors que le contraire a été possible. You did not allow us to buy back Alcan, even though you could have done so.
  Quant à nous, nous pouvons uniquement racheter les quantités dont ces autres producteurs ne veulent pas. We can only buy back the quotas which are not bought by other tobacco farmers.

Definition of buy back

• to purchase something already sold, misplaced, destroyed or given away

Examples

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

Related words

• buyback
• buyback price
• stock buyback