purchases
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Definitions ofpurchases
- The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
Example: "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.
Example: "He was pleased with his latest purchase."
- The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.)
- A price paid for a house or estate, etc. equal to the amount of the rent or income during the stated number of years.
- Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan.
Example: "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.
- The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.
- Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.
- To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.
Example: "to purchase land, to purchase a house"
- To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
- To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
Example: "to purchase favor with flattery"
- To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
- 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.
Example: "to purchase a cannon"
- To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.
- To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.
Example: "Many aristocratic refugees' portable treasures purchased their safe passage and comfortable exile during the revolution"
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