purchase
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English purchasen, from Anglo-Norman purchacer (“seek to obtain”) from pur- (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]
Noun[edit]
purchase (countable and uncountable, plural purchases)
- (obsolete) The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.)
- Beaumont and Fletcher
- I'll […] get meat to have thee, / Or lose my life in the purchase.
- 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.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
the act or process of seeking and obtaining something
individual item one has purchased
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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
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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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
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 expiate by a fine or forfeit
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to apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage
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