purchase /pûrˈchəs or -chis/

1. To buy
2. To obtain by effort, risking danger, etc
3. To seek to bring about (obsolete)
4. To bring about (obsolete)
5. To acquire
6. To get in any way other than by inheritance (law)
7. To be amends for (with out) (Shakespeare)
8. To raise or move by a mechanical power

1. To strive (Shakespeare)
2. To make purchases
3. To accumulate possessions (obsolete)

1. The act of purchasing
2. That which is purchased
3. Acquisition
4. Prize, booty (archaic)
5. Seizure (obsolete)
6. Whatever one can do for oneself by expedients (obsolete)
7. Annual rent
8. A bargain (obsolete)
9. A price (obsolete)
10. Any mechanical advantage in raising or moving bodies or apparatus
11. An advantageous hold, or means of exerting force advantageously

purˈchasable adjective

purˈchaser noun

purchase money noun

The money paid, or to be paid, for anything

purchase order noun

A commercial document issued as a formal request for the provision of goods or services

purchase system noun

The system by which, before 1871, commissions in the British Army could be bought

purchase tax noun

Formerly, a British form of sales tax levied on specified goods and at differential rates

not worth a day's, etc purchase

Not likely to last a day, etc

so many years' purchase

The value or price of a house, estate, etc equal to the amount of so many years' rent or income

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