Crossword clues for purchase
purchase
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Purchase \Pur"chase\ (?; 48), n. [OE. purchds, F. pourchas eager pursuit. See Purchase, v. t.]
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The act of seeking, getting, or obtaining anything. [Obs.]
I'll . . . get meat to have thee, Or lose my life in the purchase.
--Beau. & Fl. The act of seeking and acquiring property.
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The acquisition of title to, or properly in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
It is foolish to lay out money in the purchase of repentance.
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That which is obtained, got, or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
--Chaucer. B. Jonson.We met with little purchase upon this coast, except two small vessels of Golconda.
--De Foe.A beauty-waning and distressed widow . . . Made prize and purchase of his lustful eye.
--Shak. That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent. ``The scrip was complete evidence of his right in the purchase.''
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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.
A politician, to do great things, looks for a power -- what our workmen call a purchase.
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(Law) Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.
--Blackstone.Purchase criminal, robbery. [Obs.]
--Spenser.Purchase money, the money paid, or contracted to be paid, for anything bought.
--Berkeley.Worth [so many] years' purchase, or At [so many] years' purchase, a phrase by which the value or cost of a thing is expressed in the length of time required for the income to amount to the purchasing price; as, he bought the estate at a twenty years' purchase. To say one's life is
not worth a day's purchase in the same as saying one will not live a day, or is in imminent peril.
Purchase \Pur"chase\ (?; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Purchased; p. pr. & vb. n. Purchasing.] [OE. purchasen, porchacen, OF. porchacier, purchacier, to pursue, to seek eagerly, F. pourchasser; OF. pour, por, pur, for (L. pro) + chacier to pursue, to chase. See Chase.]
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To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
--Chaucer.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.
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To obtain by paying money or its equivalent; to buy for a price; as, to purchase land, or a house.
The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth.
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To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.; as, to purchase favor with flattery.
One poor retiring minute . . . Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends.
--Shak.A world who would not purchase with a bruise?
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To expiate by a fine or forfeit. [Obs.]
Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses.
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To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance.
--Blackstone.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.
Purchase \Pur"chase\, v. i.
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To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert one's self. [Obs.]
Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage.
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To acquire wealth or property. [Obs.]
Sure our lawyers Would not purchase half so fast.
--J. Webster.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "acquire, obtain; get, receive; procure, provide," also "accomplish or bring about; instigate; cause, contrive, plot; recruit, hire," from Anglo-French purchaser "go after," Old French porchacier "search for, procure; purchase; aim at, strive for, pursue eagerly" (11c., Modern French pourchasser), from pur- "forth" (possibly used here as an intensive prefix; see pur-) + Old French chacier "run after, to hunt, chase" (see chase (v.)).\n
\nOriginally to obtain or receive as due in any way, including through merit or suffering; specific sense of "acquire for money, pay money for, buy" is from mid-14c., though the word continued to be used for "to get by conquest in war, obtain as booty" up to 17c. Related: Purchased; purchasing.
c.1300, purchas, "acquisition, gain;" also, "something acquired or received, a possession; property, goods;" especially "booty, spoil; goods gained by pillage or robbery" (to make purchase was "to seize by robbery"). Also "mercenary soldier, one who fights for booty." From Anglo-French purchace, Old French porchaz "acquisition, gain, profit; seizing, plunder; search pursuit, effort," from Anglo-French purchaser, Old French porchacier (see purchase (v.)).\n
\nFrom early 14c. as "endeavor, effort, exertion; instigation, contrivance;" late 14c. as "act of acquiring, procurement." Meaning "that which is bought" is from 1580s. The sense of "hold or position for advantageously applying power" (1711) is extended from the nautical verb meaning "to haul or draw (especially by mechanical power)," often used in reference to hauling up anchors, attested from 1560s. Wif of purchase (early 14c.) was a term for "concubine."
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.) 2 An individual item one has purchased. 3 The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent. 4 That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition. 5 That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent. 6 (context uncountable English) Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan. 7 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 (context rock climbing uncountable English) The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge. 9 (context legal dated English) Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement. vb. 1 To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire. 2 To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent. 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. 6 To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself. 7 To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.
WordNet
n. the acquisition of something for payment; "they closed the purchase with a handshake"
something acquired by purchase
a means of exerting influence or gaining advantage; "he could get no purchase on the situation"
the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever [syn: leverage]
Wikipedia
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: "…one of the most exquisitely beautiful of racehorses…to describe Purchase would be to exhaust the superlative."
Purchase may refer to:
People:- William Purchase, one of the Colchester Martyrs
- Zac Purchase, a British rower
- Jackson Purchase, a region in western Kentucky; locally called "The Purchase"
- Purchase, New York, USA
- Treaty of the Danish West Indies, deal between Denmark and the United States in 1916
- Alaska purchase, deal between Russia and the United States in 1867
- Gadsden Purchase, territory bought by the United States from Mexico in 1853
- Jackson Purchase (U.S. historical region), territory ceded to the United States by the Chickasaws in 1818, part of which forms the modern Purchase area of Kentucky
- Louisiana Purchase, an acquisition by the United States of French territory in 1803
- Walking Purchase, agreement in 1737 between the Penn family, the proprietors of Pennsylvania and the Lenape-Delaware tribe of American Indians
- Purchase (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
- Purchase Records, American small record label started in 2000
- SUNY Purchase, a public college in the State University of New York system
- Purchase, to gain or apply leverage. See Newtonian physics
Usage examples of "purchase".
On top of that, every vessel he took had a quantity of money aboard, the funds necessary to purchase fresh stores and to pay for emergency repairs.
Azareel went inside to purchase rooms while Acies led the horses to the stable.
Of course, this is predicated on your success in purchasing all the land we require, and the subsequent merger of Acme with our new corporation.
Retail or distribution companies can include a manufactured product in an advertisement and greatly reduce the cost of the advertising or receive an allowance or discount on purchases from manufacturers in heu of shared advertising costs.
In the meanwhile Tom had been in further communication with government experts who were soon to call on him to inspect the aerial warship, with a view to purchase.
Instead, he must use the small capability given him to work his way upward, scrabble, get a purchase on matter that was not yet aflow, burrow to the stars.
The happy Alette won without trouble, perhaps even without much valuing it, a regard, an approval, which Susanna would have purchased with her life.
As arrangements were already in progress for the purchase of Barnton Spinnies, Sir Alured could not possibly leave his own house.
Jamie had planned on visits only to the two Cherokee villages closest to the Treaty Line, there to announce his new position, distribute modest gifts of whisky and tobaccothis last hastily borrowed from Tom Christie, who had fortunately purchased a hogshead of the weed on a seed-buying trip to Cross Creekand inform the Cherokee that further largesse might be expected when he undertook ambassage to the more distant villages in the autumn.
The virtue claimed for that piece of parchment by the man who had sold it to me was that it insured its lucky possessor the love of all women, but I trust my readers will do me the justice to believe that I had no faith whatever in amorous philtres, talismans, or amulets of any kind: I had purchased it only for a joke.
Lord King had recently issued a circular-letter to his tenants, that he would no longer receive bank-notes at par, but that his rents must for the future be paid either in English guineas, or in equivalent weight of Portuguese gold coin, or in bank notes amounting to a sum sufficient to purchase such an equivalent weight of gold.
Casting his eye across the page, he saw the smug face of Mark Jarratt, the gentleman who wanted to acquire the Argyle treasures by legitimate purchase.
I need to know how many weapons our master armourers can turn out in two months, and how many more we might purchase.
The atheistical works of Robert Ingersoll were not purchased by the rank and file of the Republican Party for purposes of party propaganda, but the rank and file of the Revolutionary Party spend large sums of money on publications in which their avowed leaders teach atheism as part of the Socialist program.
Bodin, I say, lived on a small estate he had purchased, and attributed all the agricultural misfortunes he met with in the course of the year to the wrath of an avenging Deity.