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Definition of Purchase

1. Verb. Obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction. "The children purchase the ball"; "She buys for the big department store"

2. Noun. The acquisition of something for payment. "They closed the purchase with a handshake"

3. Noun. Something acquired by purchase.

4. Noun. A means of exerting influence or gaining advantage. "He could get no purchase on the situation"

5. Noun. The mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever.

Definition of Purchase

1. v. t. To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.

2. v. i. To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert one's self.

3. n. The act of seeking, getting, or obtaining anything.

Definition of Purchase

1. Noun. The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.) ¹

2. Noun. An individual item one has purchased. ¹

3. Noun. The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent. ¹

4. Noun. That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition. ¹

5. Noun. That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent. ¹

6. Noun. (uncountable) Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan. ¹

7. Noun. The apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained. ¹

8. Noun. (''rock climbing, uncountable'') The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge. ¹

9. Noun. (legal dated) Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement. ¹

10. Verb. To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire. ¹

11. Verb. To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent. ¹

12. Verb. To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc. ¹

13. Verb. To expiate by a fine or forfeit. ¹

14. Verb. To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a '''purchase''' upon, or apply a '''purchase''' to. ¹

15. Verb. To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert one's self. ¹

16. Verb. To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Purchase

1. to acquire by the payment of money [v -CHASED, -CHASING, -CHASES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Purchase

pupylation pupæ pur pur et dur pur laine puranas purau purblind purblindly purblindness

purblindnesses purcelane purcelanes purchasability purchasable purchase (current term) purchase agreement purchase contract purchase order purchase price

purchase price variance purchased purchaser purchasers purchases purchasest purchaseth purchasing purchasing agent purchasing department

Literary usage of Purchase

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1844)
"Contract for purchase, generally: by a devise of the real estate, ... By a contract for a purchase, if the vendor has a good title,.in Equity it is the real ..."

2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1873)
"By purchase. Geological Map of the Netherlands, on 6 sheets. By Dr. WCH Staring. By purchase. Map of the Netherlands, showing the lines of Telegraph, ..."

3. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1892)
"A purchase, in the ordinary and popular acceptation, is the transmission of' ... purchase "means to buy, to obtain property by paying an equivalent in money ..."

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