purchase
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climbing
hobbies
law
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: 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”).
Inflected forms:
form: purchases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: purchases
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: purchasing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: purchased
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: purchased
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They offer a free hamburger with the purchase of a drink.
gloss: That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He was pleased with his latest purchase.
[Said by a shopkeeper] I really don't think you can carry any more purchases. You can come again after you sell something, or you can simply discard an item to lighten your load. Or, you might want to sell the things you don't need here!
gloss: That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.)
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: I'll […] get meat to save thee, / Or lose my life i’ th’ purchase.
gloss: A price paid for a house or estate, etc. equal to the amount of the rent or income during the stated number of years.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Suppose a freehold house to be worth 20 years’ purchase […]
gloss: Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan.
pos: noun
tags: also
figuratively
uncountable
examples: It is hard to get purchase on a nail without a pry bar or hammer.
The problem is that the model of individual responsibility assumed by most versions of ethics have little purchase on the behavior of Capital or corporations.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He describes the operation thus: "The heavy ram employed to impart the finishing strokes, hoisted up with double purchase and snail's pace to the summit of the Piling Engine, and then falling down like a thunderbolt on the head of the devoted timber, driving it perhaps a single half inch in to the stratum below, is well calculated to put to the test the virtue of patience, while it illustrates the old adage of—slow and sure."
gloss: The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: At first, he was climbing down, testing for purchase with his feet. But soon, as the entire section of ground rotated, he was lifted into the air, and up and down flipped around.
gloss: Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: The difference […]between the acquisition of an estate by descent and by purchase
gloss: To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.
pos: verb
examples: to purchase land, to purchase a house
gloss: To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
pos: verb
examples: that loves the thing he cannot purchase
They [the English] are all on fire / To purchaſe from the Spaniard. If their Carracks / Come deeply laden, vvee ſhall tugge vvith them / For golden ſpoile.
Your accent is something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling.
His faults […] hereditary / Rather than purchased.
gloss: To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
pos: verb
examples: to purchase favor with flattery
One poor retiring minute […] / Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends.
gloss: To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
pos: verb
examples: Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses.
gloss: To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; to raise or move by mechanical means.
pos: verb
examples: to purchase a cannon
gloss: To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.
pos: verb
examples: 1523–1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles
Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage.
gloss: To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.
pos: verb
examples: Many aristocratic refugees' portable treasures purchased their safe passage and comfortable exile during the revolution.
Synonyms: emption
purchase
Antonyms: sale
Related words: purchaser
buy
Derived words: compulsory purchase
compulsory purchase order
counterpurchase
distress purchase
hire purchase
impulse purchase
interpurchase
micropurchase
mispurchase
money purchase
nominee purchase
nonpurchase
point of purchase
postpurchase
proof of purchase
purchase funnel
purchase journal
purchase order
purchase price
purchase prize
purchase requisition
purchase shears
purchase system
repurchase
splurchase
straw purchase
year's purchase
overpurchase
prepurchase
forepurchased
nonpurchased
nonpurchasing
outpurchase
purchasability
purchasable
purchaseless
purchaser
purchase to pay
purchasing agent
purchasing power
unpurchaseable
unpurchased
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