Like most words people don’t hear from the mouths of Hollywood broadcasters and celebrities, repurchase accused is not a word. But it is a word. Actually, it’s two.
The adjective ‘bought’ means ‘the opposite of homemade’ or ‘bought’. It can also suggest that something that should have been given away for free was paid to get, as in “purchased testimonials”.
Formed from the past tense of buyfrom repurchase receive buy and add -enlike hide from hidepast tense of hide. And like hide, repurchase has two functions: adjective and verb form.
As an adjective, repurchase means simply “bought”, as in “bought cookies never taste as good as homemade cookies.” The entry in this dictionary dates the adjective to 1738 and calls it “dominant dialect”, meaning that it occurs mainly in regional forms of English. The word, as the cookie example demonstrates, is often used to compare a purchased version of something with a version made at home or by one’s own efforts. It is often synonymous with even less common shop buydefined in Merriam-Webster Unabridged as a dialect variation of shop buythat word is the only word in common of all three.
buyas an adjective, slightly more widely used than shop buy And shop buy; it can suggest that something that should have been given freely was paid to get, as in “purchased endorsement”. That also rare usage seems to be more common in British English than in American English.
buy is also used in some dialects as a past participle of . buy. The past participle of buy (and past simple form) in Standard English is buy. We say “I’ll buy some cookies soon” and then “I bought cookies”. But repurchase also used by some people: “I bought cookies.”
A quick search on Twitter shows that no use repurchase died, but the word was never widely loved. And it has been the object of criticism in the last century or so. If you use repurchase you can certainly protect yourself from people who think it’s not a word. You can also tell the critics that writers like Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Frost, LM Montgomery and Ursula Le Guin used it. But if you don’t have time to deal with criticism, you might want to stick around shop buy And buy instead of.
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