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▪ I. reˈpurchase, n.|riː-|
[re- 5 a.]
The act of buying back. (Common in late 19th-c. use.)
1611Florio, Ricompra, a repurchase or bying againe. 1863Sat. Rev. 16 May 631 He promised to give an option of repurchase at a future time. 1875Jevons Money xviii. 233 Independently, however, of repurchase, stamps are so continually being cancelled [etc.].
Add:b. Special Comb. repurchase agreement (orig. U.S.), a contract in which the vendor of (esp. government) securities agrees to repurchase them from the buyer, usu. on a specified date; cf. *repo n.1
1924G. G. Munn Encycl. Banking & Finance 495/2 Repurchase Agreement. This term has two applications: (1) Bonds are sometimes sold by one bank or investment house to another with the privilege of repurchase... (2) Member banks may borrow from a Federal Reserve bank through the instrumentality of a repurchase agreement, which, to all intents and purposes, is a collateral advance. 1938R. B. Westerfield Money, Credit & Banking xxxi. 629 An exception to this reserve bank initiation in the purchase..and sale of government securities is found in the so-called ‘sales contract’ or ‘repurchase agreement’. 1963Wall St. Jrnl. 5 Nov. 18/3 Securities dealers look to repurchase agreements, or ‘repos’, as a way to obtain short-term financing and the device long has been used in connection with Government securities. 1987M. Brett How to read Financial Pages xiv. 163 [The Bank of England] may have entered into arrangements to buy securities and sell them back later (repurchase agreements or repos) which act as a short term loan.
▪ II. reˈpurchase, v.|riː-|
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To purchase again, to buy back.
1592Nobody & Someb. 1940 in Simpson Sch. Shaks. (1878) I. 353 Leases, likewise forfeited, By him repurchast. 1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, v. vii. 2 Once more we sit in Englands Royall Throne, Re-purchac'd with the Blood of Enemies. 1671Woodhead St. Teresa i. xiv. 90 This soul..which thou hast so often repurchased again and again. 1713C'tess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 115 Repurchases in time th' abandon'd Sheep. 1796Burke Let. Noble Ld. Wks. VIII. 46 Every day he lived he would have re-purchased the bounty of the crown. 1870E. Peacock Ralph Skirl. I. 213 It was a cherished whim of the Squire to repurchase this fragment.
absol.1858Ld. St. Leonards Handy-Bk. Prop. Law vii. 43 If you sell out stock..and then you re-purchase at a loss, you are not entitled to any allowance on that account.
Hence reˈpurchased ppl. a.; reˈpurchaser.
1598Florio, Racquistatore,..a reobtainer, a repurchaser. 1652J. Wright tr. Camus' Nat. Paradox xii. 342 Miestas besides his re-purchased Liberty was ravisht to see so many Laurells shadowing his Son's Temples. |