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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English purchasen, from Anglo-Norman purchacer (“seek to obtain”) from pur- (from Latin pro-) + chac(i)er (“to chase, pursue”). Compare Old French porchacier (“to follow, to chase”), which has given French pourchasser (“to chase without relent”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɝtʃəs/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɜːtʃəs/
- Hyphenation: pur‧chase
Audio (US) (file)
Noun[edit]
purchase (countable and uncountable, plural purchases)
- (obsolete) The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.)
- (Can we date this quote by Beaumont and Fletcher?)
- I'll […] get meat to have thee, / Or lose my life in the purchase.
- (Can we date this quote by Beaumont and Fletcher?)
- An individual item one has purchased.
- The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
- They offer a free hamburger with the purchase of a drink.
- That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
- That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
- He was pleased with his latest purchase.
- (uncountable) Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan.
- It is hard to get purchase on a nail without a pry bar or hammer.
- The apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained and in nautical terminology the ratio of such a device, like a pulley, or block and tackle.
- (rock climbing, uncountable) The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.
- (law, dated) Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Blackstone to this entry?)
- A price paid for a house or estate, etc. equal to the amount of the rent or income during the stated number of years.
- 1848, The Sessional Papers printed by order of the House of Lords
- Suppose a freehold house to be worth 20 years' purchase […]
- 1848, The Sessional Papers printed by order of the House of Lords
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
the act or process of seeking and obtaining something
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individual item one has purchased
the acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price
that which is obtained, got, or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly
that which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent
any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies
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the apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained
the amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge
acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance
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- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.
Verb[edit]
purchase (third-person singular simple present purchases, present participle purchasing, simple past and past participle purchased)
- To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
- Spenser
- that loves the thing he cannot purchase
- Shakespeare
- Your accent is something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling.
- Shakespeare
- His faults […] hereditary / Rather than purchased.
- Spenser
- To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.
- to purchase land, to purchase a house
- To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
- to purchase favor with flattery
- Shakespeare
- One poor retiring minute […] / Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends.
- To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
- Shakespeare
- Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses.
- Shakespeare
- To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to.
- to purchase a cannon
- To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.
- Ld. Berners
- Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage.
- Ld. Berners
- To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.
- Many aristocratic refugees' portable treasures purchased their safe passage and comfortable exile during the revolution
Synonyms[edit]
- (buy): procure
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to obtain by paying money or its equivalent; to buy for a price
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to pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain or acquire
to obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger or sacrifice
to apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage
to put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself
to constitute the buying power for a purchase
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.
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