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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of repurchase.

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Examples

  • Why policymakers would favor an asymmetric application of a rule like this in favor of short sales and against company repurchases is a mystery.

    Sears Chairman Unleashes 15-Page Manifesto About Um, Everything - The Consumerist 2009

  • Bank of America and Citigroup also disclosed in regulatory filings last year that they had erroneously classified some of their short-term repurchases as sales at times, but that the transactions would not have been large enough to have a noticeable impact on their balance sheets and they have corrected the errors.

    Accounting Board Tries to Close Lehman Loophole Emily Chasan 2011

  • For the full year 2010, we returned more than $2.4 billion to shareholders via combination of dividends and share repurchases, which is up 60% versus 2009.

    3 CEO Discusses Q4 2010 Earnings Call Transcript - Seeking Alpha 2011

  • Operational cash flow went down 10%, but overall, you've got to call this a much improved quarter (a note on cash flow: it pretty much covered capital expenditures, dividends, and share repurchases, which is good news).

    BloggingStocks 2010

  • Operational cash flow went down 10%, but overall, you've got to call this a much improved quarter (a note on cash flow: it pretty much covered capital expenditures, dividends, and share repurchases, which is good news).

    BloggingStocks 2010

  • Unlike several mall peers, PREIT has taken few steps to repair its broken balance sheet ⅜ beyond a dividend cut, non-core asset sales, and opportunistic debt repurchases, that is ...

    StreetInsider.com News Articles 2009

  • When those opportunities don't exist or aren't available at the right price, that's the point which we would deploy it into share repurchases, which is essentially what we've done in the past.

    Healthcare Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2009

  • When those opportunities don't exist or aren't available at the right price, that's the point which we would deploy it into share repurchases, which is essentially what we've done in the past.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

  • Having generated a significant amount of cash, above and beyond the capital requirements, and that's above and beyond the share repurchases, which is significant, executed to-date.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2008

  • Having generated a significant amount of cash, above and beyond the capital requirements, and that's above and beyond the share repurchases, which is significant, executed to-date.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2008

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