Definition of Purchase

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Purchase

To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.

To obtain by paying money or its equivalent; to buy for a price; as, to purchase land, or a house.

To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.; as, to purchase favor with flattery.

To expiate by a fine or forfeit.

To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance.

To buy for a price.

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.

To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert one's self.

To acquire wealth or property.

The act of seeking, getting, or obtaining anything.

The act of seeking and acquiring property.

The acquisition of title to, or properly in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.

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.

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.

Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.

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Purchase Quotations

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.
Plautus

American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.
Dave Barry

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
Charles Dickens

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Arthur Schopenhauer

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.
David Bowie

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
Adam Smith

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
Ovid

We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repairs with grain of different kinds.
Meriwether Lewis

We have all read tragic stories in our local papers about gun accidents as a result of misuse. As lawmakers we can better promote safety and responsibility by encouraging gun owners to purchase gun safes to store firearms and keep them from falling into the wrong hands.
Ron Lewis

Purchase Translations

purchase in Afrikaans is koop
purchase in Dutch is koop, inkoop, aankoop
purchase in Finnish is ostaa
purchase in French is achetons, achetez, acheter, achetent, emplette
purchase in German is Einkauf, Anschaffung {f}, kaufen, Einkau {m}
purchase in Italian is comprare, compra, compera, decrescenza, acquistare
purchase in Latin is emo emi emptum, reparo
purchase in Portuguese is compra, comprar

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