purchase

English Online Dictionary. What means purchase‎? What does purchase mean?

English

Etymology

From Middle English purchasen, from Anglo-Norman purchacer (“seek to obtain”) from pur- (from Latin pro-) + chac(i)er (“to chase, pursue”). Compare Old French porchacier (“to follow, to chase”), which has given French pourchasser (“to chase without relent”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɝ.t͡ʃəs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜː(ɹ).t͡ʃəs/
• Hyphenation: pur‧chase

Noun

purchase (countable and uncountable, plural purchases)

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

3. That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
4. That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
5. (obsolete) The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.)
6. A price paid for a house or estate, etc. equal to the amount of the rent or income during the stated number of years.
7. (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
8. 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.
9. (climbing, uncountable) The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.

   Synonyms: foothold, support
10. (law, dated) Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.

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Verb

purchase (third-person singular simple present purchases, present participle purchasing, simple past and past participle purchased)

1. To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.

2. To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
3. To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
4. To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
5. 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.

6. To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.
   • 1523–1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles

     Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage.

7. To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.

Synonyms

• (buy): procure

Derived terms

• purchasable
• purchase to pay
• purchasing agent
• purchasing power

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