purchase moneyn.
/ˈpəːtʃᵻs ˌmʌni/, U.S. /ˈpərtʃəs ˌməni/ The sum for which something is or may be purchased. Also figurative.
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1647 Three Ordinances 23 Aug. 4 The said six moneths wherein the latter moyety of the Purchase money ought to be payed, shall be reckoned from the time of the Contract.
a1675 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 118 The cleer profit of it was above 3000l,..which did help well towards the raysing of the purchase money.
1680 Revenge; or, Match in Newgate iv. 45 There lies a Ladie, Sir, with whom he's desperately in love; and having no purchase-money..hires the Bawd at the price of's own bodie, to get the young Ladie.
1720 in Rec. Early Hist. Boston (1883) VIII. 146 The which purchace money to be Invested in Some Real Estate for the use of this Town.
a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) II. 293 I would part with the purchase-money, for which I have less regard.
1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 57 The purchase money of farms is estimated upon the amount of rent.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 259 He..retained the proceeds..with which to pay off his purchase-money.
1918 Act 13 in Statute of Union 242 The provisions of this section shall not apply to bonds intended to secure the purchase money of land.
1972 C. Drummond Death at Bar ii. 47 Alwyn did not pay over the purchase money.
1993 Harper's Mag. Apr. 74/2 It..cost us up-front purchase money and aircraft fuel and pilots' overtime and all the rest of it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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