Look up: Purchase

1. Purchase
   To buy, to be long, to have an ownership position.
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2. purchase
   [Verb] To buy.
   Example: Ian had been saving for months to purchase a new stereo.
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3. purchase
   [n] - something acquired by purchase 2. [n] - a means of exerting influence or gaining advantage 3. [n] - the acquisition of something for payment
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4. Purchase
   an arrangement of ropes and pulleys to give mechanical advantage
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5. Purchase
   Pur'chase transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Purchased ; present participle & verbal noun Purchasing .] [ Middle English purchasen , porchacen , Old French por...
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6. Purchase
   Pur'chase intransitive verb 1. To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert one's self. [ Obsolete] « Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage.» L...
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7. Purchase
   Pur'chase noun [ Middle English purchds , French pourchas eager pursuit. See Purchase , transitive verb ] 1. The act of seeking, getting, or obtaining anything. [ Obsolete] « I'll . . . get mea...
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8. purchase
   1. To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire. 'That loves the thing he can not purchase.' (Spenser) 'Your accent is Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling.' (Shak) 'His faults . . . Hereditary Rather than purchased.' (Shak) ... 2. To obtain by...
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9. purchase
   noun the acquisition of something for payment; `they closed the purchase with a handshake`
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10. purchase
    noun something acquired by purchase
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11. Purchase
    • (v. i.) To acquire wealth or property. • (v. t.) To obtain by paying money or its equivalent; to buy for a price; as, to purchase land, or a house. • (v. t.) That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent. • (v. t.) To acquire by any means except descent or inher...
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12. Purchase
    Buy; be long; have an ownership position.
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13. Purchase
    To buy. Discover What It`s Like to Live Easy With EquiTrend
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14. purchase
    
    • the acquisition of something for payment
    • a means of exerting influence or gaining advantage
    • the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever
    
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15. purchase
    An arrangement of blocks and tackle which provide mechanical advantage.
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16. Purchase
    (horse) `Purchase` (foaled in 1916, died 1936), an American Thoroughbred racehorse, was called "The Adonis of the Turf." Walter Vosburgh, the official handicapper for The Jockey Club as well as a turf historian for many years (and for whom the Vosburgh Stakes were named), wrote: &qu...
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