2. Verb. (third-person singular of purchase) ¹
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Definition of Purchases
1. purchase [v] - See also: purchase
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purchases
Literary usage of Purchases
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 20th Century Bookkeeping and Accounting: A Treatise on Modern Bookkeeping by James Williams Baker (1918)
"Exercises in purchases and Sales Charts. Prepare a chart for each of these three
exercises. Exercise No. 76 is the same as Illustration No. 93. ..."
2. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, William Hardcastle Browne (1894)
"In New Jersey, the proprietaries very early secured all their titles by Indian
purchases, and all purchases made without the consent of the government were, ..."
3. 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)
"Principle of the rule, upon which purchases by trustees of the trust property
are himself or another (a). A Commissioner of Bankruptcy cannot purchase under ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"No money was used in these purchases other than such as was taken directly from
... There the purchases were made with moneys that cannot be identified as ..."
5. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"... evidently owing to their having been scarcely any purchases thereof made by
the British government, for the use of the navy and army, which in former ..."
6. Annual Report by New York State Library (1915)
"Auction buying has contributed a large percentage of the purchases, ... The purchases
in this field which were most valuable from the money point of view ..."
7. Manufacturing Costs and Accounts by Alexander Hamilton Church (1917)
"In all cases where purchases are not immediately chargeable to production ... I.
STORES The first group of purchases which we shall consider under this head ..."
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