buyback
B1CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
A company's repurchase of its own shares from existing shareholders.
The board announced a share buyback to return surplus cash to investors and support the share price.
Business noun
A company's repurchase of its own shares, reducing the number in circulation.
The board announced a share buyback to return surplus cash to investors.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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