单词 | rebuy |
释义 | rebuyv. 1. transitive. To buy back. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (transitive)] > buy back redeema1500 repurchase1533 rebuy1611 retreat?c1682 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Retraict Lignagier, a power, giuen by custome vnto the neerest kinsman of one that sells land, to rebuy it within a certaine time. 1661 T. Fuller Andronicus Trag. iv. i. 56 For every Oath I bestow to the poor, Some money, and so re-buy my innocence. 1693 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 118 Prince Lewis had taken some horses, mules, with part of D'Lorges baggage; who sent to the prince to rebuy their horses, but was refused. 1799 C. B. Brown Ormond xix. 215 She determined to employ the agency of Roseveldt, the musical-shopman, for the purpose of re-buying this instrument. 1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Disowned IV. i. 23 The house..belonged to my mother's family, but my father sold it, and his son five years ago rebought it. 1886 Law Times 80 206/1 To sell and to rebuy the same amount of stock at a future day at the same price. 1924 J. A. Steuart Robert Louis Stevenson I. 32 The family was soon on its feet again, and a generation later we find a Balfour..buying or rebuying the estate of Pilrig. 1956 Oxf. Econ. Papers 8 30 The scheme enabled a converter who bought cloth to sell nominal ‘futures’ to the Commission, provided he did not rebuy in less than three months. 2006 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 6 Jan. c1 He sells shares at high prices and rebuys them at lower prices. 2. transitive. To buy a second time. Also intransitive. ΚΠ 1624 J. Vicars tr. G. Goodwin Babels Balm 101 The Master of Romes Market, sells vaine things: And to Gods House, he, thus, base Riches brings. He makes his Buyers, re-buy things fore-bought. 1859 E. Money Wife & Ward xx. 319 I am a poor man, I have a large family at home..; how then can I rebuy everything? 1866 J. M. Neale Sequences & Hymns 186 I bought them; and I will rebuy them. 1903 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Morning Jrnl. 19 Nov. 3/2 (advt.) Supply your needs at this sale. You may not have the chance to rebuy at such low prices. 1966 Calif. Law Rev. 54 1398 The purchaser is forced to rebuy last year's supplement with the current year's additions. 2004 P. Rayner et al. Media Stud. ii. vi. 123 I am in real danger of rebuying the same books—though..I probably could re-read most of the book and not recall even that I had read it before. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1611 |
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