purchase
see also: Purchase
Pronunciation Noun
Purchase
Proper noun
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see also: Purchase
Pronunciation Noun
purchase
- 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.
- (obsolete) The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.)
- c. 1613 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Tragedie of Bonduca”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: Printed for Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, OCLC 3083972 ↗, Act 5, scene 3:
- I'll […] get meat to save thee, / Or lose my life i' th' purchase.
- A price paid for a house or estate, etc. equal to the amount of the rent or income during the stated number of years.
- 1848, The Sessional Papers printed by order of the House of Lords
- Suppose a freehold house to be worth 20 years' purchase […]
- 1848, The Sessional Papers printed by order of the House of Lords
- (uncountable, also, figuratively) Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan.
- Synonyms: contact, grip, hold
- 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.
- Synonyms: foothold, support
- (legal, dated) Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.
- French: achat, acquisition
- German: Einkauf, Kauf
- Italian: compra, acquisto
- Portuguese: compra, aquisição
- Russian: поку́пка
- Spanish: compra, adquisición
- French: achat, acquisition
- German: Kauf, Anschaffung
- Portuguese: aquisição, compra
- Russian: ку́пленная вещь
- Spanish: adquisición, compra
- German: Anschaffung
- Portuguese: compra, compras
- Russian: поку́пка
- Russian: добы́тая вещь
- Russian: выигрыш в силе
purchase (purchases, present participle purchasing; past and past participle purchased)
- To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.
- to purchase land, to purchase a house
- To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
- that loves the thing he cannot purchase
- c. 1598–1600, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene ii]:
- Your accent is something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling.
- c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene iv]:
- His faults […] hereditary / Rather than purchased.
- To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
- to purchase favor with flattery
- 1594, William Shakespeare, Lvcrece (First Quarto), London: Printed by Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], OCLC 236076664 ↗:
- One poor retiring minute […] / Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends.
- To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
- c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene i]:
- Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses.
- 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.
- to purchase a cannon
- To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.
- Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage.
- 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
- (buy) procure
- French: acheter
- German: kaufen, anschaffen, erwerben, erstehen
- Italian: comprare, comperare (less common)
- Portuguese: comprar, comprar
- Spanish: comprar
- French: acquérir
- Russian: приобрета́ть
Purchase
Proper noun
- Surname
- A hamlet in Harrison, New York.
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