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pur⋅chase
[pur-chuh
s] 
verb, -chased, -chas⋅ing, noun –verb (used with object)
| 1. | to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy. |
| 2. | to acquire by effort, sacrifice, flattery, etc. |
| 3. | to influence by a bribe. |
| 4. | to be sufficient to buy: Twenty dollars purchases a subscription. |
| 5. | Law. to acquire (land or other property) by means other than inheritance. |
| 6. | to move, haul, or raise, esp. by applying mechanical power. |
| 7. | to get a leverage on; apply a lever, pulley, or other aid to. |
| 8. | Obsolete. to procure, acquire, or obtain. |
–verb (used without object)
| 9. | to buy something. |
–noun
| 10. | acquisition by the payment of money or its equivalent; buying, or a single act of buying. |
| 11. | something that is purchased or bought. |
| 12. | something purchased, with respect to value in relation to price; buy: At three for a dollar they seemed like a good purchase. |
| 13. | Law. the acquisition of land or other property by means other than inheritance. |
| 14. | acquisition by means of effort, labor, etc.: the purchase of comfort at the price of freedom. |
| 15. | a lever, pulley, or other device that provides mechanical advantage or power for moving or raising a heavy object. |
| 16. | an effective hold or position for applying power in moving or raising a heavy object; leverage. |
| 17. | any means of applying or increasing power, influence, etc. |
| 18. | the annual return or rent from land. |
| 19. | a firm grip or grasp, footing, etc., on something. |
| 20. | Obsolete. booty. |
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| pur·chase (pûr'chĭs) tr.v. pur·chased, pur·chas·ing, pur·chas·es
[Middle English purchasen, to pursue, purchase, from Old French purchacier : pur-, forth (from Latin prō-; see per1 in Indo-European roots) + chacier, to chase; see chase1.] pur'chas·er n. |
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Purchase
Pur"chase\ (?; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Purchased; p. pr. & vb. n. Purchasing.] [OE. purchasen, porchacen, OF. porchacier, purchacier, to pursue, to seek eagerly, F. pourchasser; OF. pour, por, pur, for (L. pro) + chacier to pursue, to chase. See Chase.]1. To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire. --Chaucer. That loves the thing he can not purchase. --Spenser. Your accent is Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling. --Shak. His faults . . . hereditary Rather than purchased. --Shak. 2. To obtain by paying money or its equivalent; to buy for a price; as, to purchase land, or a house. The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth. --Gen. xxv. 10. 3. To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.; as, to purchase favor with flattery. One poor retiring minute . . . Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends. --Shak. A world who would not purchase with a bruise? --Milton. 4. To expiate by a fine or forfeit. [Obs.] Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses. --Shak. 5. (Law) (a) To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance. --Blackstone. (b) To buy for a price. 6. To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; as, to purchase a cannon.Purchase
Pur"chase\, v. i. 1. To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert one's self. [Obs.] Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage. --Ld. Berners. 2. To acquire wealth or property. [Obs.] Sure our lawyers Would not purchase half so fast. --J. Webster.Purchase
Pur"chase\ (?; 48), n. [OE. purchds, F. pourchas eager pursuit. See Purchase, v. t.]1. The act of seeking, getting, or obtaining anything. [Obs.] I'll . . . get meat to have thee, Or lose my life in the purchase. --Beau. & Fl. 2. The act of seeking and acquiring property. 3. The acquisition of title to, or properly in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent. It is foolish to lay out money in the purchase of repentance. --Franklin. 4. That which is obtained, got, or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition. --Chaucer. B. Jonson. We met with little purchase upon this coast, except two small vessels of Golconda. --De Foe. A beauty-waning and distressed widow . . . Made prize and purchase of his lustful eye. --Shak. 5. That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent. "The scrip was complete evidence of his right in the purchase." --Wheaton. 6. Any mechanical hold, or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle, capstan, and the like; also, the apparatus, tackle, or device by which the advantage is gained. A politician, to do great things, looks for a power -- what our workmen call a purchase. --Burke. 7. (Law) Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement. --Blackstone. Purchase criminal, robbery. [Obs.] --Spenser. Purchase money, the money paid, or contracted to be paid, for anything bought. --Berkeley. Worth, or At, [so many] years' purchase, a phrase by which the value or cost of a thing is expressed in the length of time required for the income to amount to the purchasing price; as, he bought the estate at a twenty years' purchase. To say one's life is not worth a day's purchase in the same as saying one will not live a day, or is in imminent peril.
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Language Translation for : purchase
Spanish:
comprar, adquirir,
German:
kaufen,
Japanese:
買う
purchase (v.)
1290, "obtain, contrive, bring about," from Anglo-Fr. purchaser "go after," from pur- "forth" (possibly used here as an intensive prefix; see purblind) + O.Fr. chacier "run after" (see chase). Sense of "buy" first recorded 1377, though the word continued to be used for "to get by conquest in war, obtain as booty" up to 17c. Noun meaning "that which is bought" is recorded from 1587. The sense of "hold or position for advantageously applying power" (1711) is extended from the nautical verb meaning "to haul or draw (especially by mechanical power)," used especially of hauling up anchors, and attested from 1567.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: pur·chase
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: pur·chased; pur·chas·ing
transitive verb 1 : to acquire (real property) by means other than descent or inheritance
2 : to obtain by paying money or giving other valuable consideration; specifically : to take (property) by a voluntary transaction (as a sale, mortgage, pledge, lien, or gift) that creates an interest and that is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code —see also BONA FIDE PURCHASER intransitive verb : to purchase something —pur·chas·able adjective —pur·chas·er noun
Main Entry: purchase
Function: noun
: an act or instance of purchasing: as a : the acquiring of real property by any means other than descent or inheritance b : the acquiring of an interest in property esp. in exchange for valuable consideration —see also WORD OF PURCHASE
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