 6 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
purchase
noun
1: the acquisition of something for payment; "they closed the
purchase with a handshake"
2: something acquired by purchase
3: a means of exerting influence or gaining advantage; "he
could get no purchase on the situation"
4: the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to
use a lever [syn: {leverage}]
verb: obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial
transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The
conglomerate acquired a new company"; "She buys for the
big department store" [syn: {buy}] [ant: {sell}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Purchase \Pur"chase\ (?; 48), verb (used with an object) [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}.]
1. 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. --Shak.
2. 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. --Gen. xxv.
10.
3. 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?
--Milton.
4. To expiate by a fine or forfeit. [Obs.]
Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses.
--Shak.
5. (Law)
(a) To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance.
--Blackstone.
(b) To buy for a price.
6. 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Purchase \Pur"chase\, verb (used without an object)
1. 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.
--Ld. Berners.
2. To acquire wealth or property. [Obs.]
Sure our lawyers
Would not purchase half so fast. --J. Webster.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Purchase \Pur"chase\ (?; 48), noun [OE. purchds, F. pourchas eager
pursuit. See {Purchase}, verb (used with an object)]
1. 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.
2. The act of seeking and acquiring property.
3. 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. --Franklin.
4. 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.
5. That which is obtained for a price in money or its
equivalent. ''The scrip was complete evidence of his right
in the purchase.'' --Wheaton.
6. 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. --Burke.
7. (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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
135 Moby Thesaurus words for "purchase":
achieve, acquire, acquiring, acquisition, advantage, approach,
ascendancy, attain, authority, bear hug, bite, bribe, buy,
buy back, buy in, buy into, buy off, buy on credit, buy up, buying,
charisma, charm, clamp, clasp, clench, clinch, cling, clinging,
clout, clutch, complete a purchase, consequence, control, corner,
corrupt, credit, death grip, dominance, domination, edge, effect,
embrace, eminence, enchantment, engross, esteem, favor, firm hold,
fix, foothold, footing, footplate, footrail, footrest, force, gain,
get, get at, get to, good feeling, grapple, grasp, grease,
grease the palm, grip, gripe, hold, hug, importance,
incidental power, influence, influentiality, insinuation,
iron grip, leadership, leverage, locus standi, magnetism,
make a buy, mastery, moment, monopolize, nip, obtain, obtaining,
pay for, pay off, perch, personality, persuasion, position,
potency, power, predominance, preponderance, pressure, prestige,
procure, procurement, purchasing, reach, realize, rebuy, regrate,
reign, repurchase, repute, rule, say, secure, securing, seizure,
stance, stand, standing, standing place, suasion, suborn,
subtle influence, suggestion, support, supremacy, sway, tackle,
take, take care of, tamper with, tickle the palm, tight grip,
toehold, traction, upper hand, weight, whip hand, win
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Purchase, NY
Zip code(s): 10577
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