Definition of "repurchases" []

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

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