purchase | |
1. n. (obsolete) The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.) | |
2. n. An individual item one has purchased. | |
3. n. 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. | |
4. n. That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition. | |
5. n. That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent. | |
He was pleased with his latest purchase. | |
6. n. Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan. | |
It is hard to get purchase on a nail without a pry bar or hammer. | |
7. n. 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. | |
8. n. (rock climbing) The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge. | |
9. n. (legal, dated) Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement. | |
10. n. A price paid for a house or estate, etc. equal to the amount of the rent or income during the stated number of years. | |
11. v. To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire. | |
12. v. To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent. | |
to purchase land, to purchase a house | |
13. v. To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc. | |
to purchase favor with flattery | |
14. v. To expiate by a fine or forfeit. | |
15. v. To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to. | |
to purchase a cannon | |
16. v. To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself. | |
17. v. 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 | |