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purchase English

Meaning purchase meaning

What does purchase mean?
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purchase Verb

— If you purchase something, you buy it. A licence needs to be purchased from the local authority and printing of tickets also adds to the costs. JEB Fasteners purchased all the shares in the private company for just under $900,000.

purchase Noun

— A purchase is a strong hold on something. He wasn't able to get a purchase on his bag before it was pulled away from him.

purchase

— verb (= buy) 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 — noun the acquisition of something for payment they closed the purchase with a handshake — noun something acquired by purchase — noun a means of exerting influence or gaining advantage he could get no purchase on the situation — noun (= leverage) the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever

Synonyms purchase synonyms

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Topics purchase topics

What do people use purchase to talk about?
Work and occupation Finance Financial transaction

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Conjugation purchase conjugation

How do you conjugate purchase?

purchase · verb

Examples purchase examples

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Simple sentences

She wishes to purchase a book.
She was carrying her purchase in a plastic bag. It bursted and all its content fell on the ground.
We will purchase a new car next week.
I would like to purchase some boots.
It was a purchase which he could not possibly afford.
I paid for the purchase in cash.
The purchase is on the company's account.
The purchase brought his bill to 100 dollars.
The millionaire intended to purchase the masterpiece regardless of cost.
Reckon the cost before you decide to purchase the car.
I had to borrow money to purchase the car.
They are saving their money for the purchase of a house.
Keeping the suit on, Dima walked out of the changing room and stated that he wanted to make the purchase.
This ticket is valid for two days after purchase.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
A home is a once-in-a-lifetime purchase so you don't want to make any snap decisions.
This ticket is valid for only two days after its purchase.
The couple wants to purchase a home.
That book's not available for purchase.
That purchase was a good bargain.
You cannot purchase this medicine without a prescription.
Did Tom purchase it?

Movie subtitles

Oh, well, we're just celebrating - a big new purchase.
You sneak out in the middle of the night. to purchase a creature we don't know the first thing about.
And arrange for the purchase of the Dead Man's Gulch.
Did you purchase it locally?
To the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
I've succeeded in interesting a client in the possibility of a purchase.
I accuse the government of violating the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Gadsen Purchase.
The idea that anyone should go out and purchase a gift with hard money filled us with tender gratitude.
There's a possibility we might purchase something.
Can one purchase a hostage?
Here, now here's the contract of the purchase of Alaska.
A syndicate of American bankers has offered to purchase all of Russian America.
A wonderful purchase, sir, even though you may have to beat him.
This purchase was made in 1946.
I don't seem to have the right purchase.
And where, for example, could he raise the few pounds necessary. to purchase even a small boat?
He's looking for a small boat which he'll purchase. on the night chosen for our escape.
Don't make the purchase until well on in the evening.
You pirates are used to taking without the formality of purchase.
I have the pleasure of showing you my latest purchase.
For that money, it's a very good purchase.
Now ladies and gentlemen comes the opportunity to purchase an exact duplicate of the beautiful little musical box just bought by this gentleman for the ridiculous low price of two pounds.
Your benefactor uses his political mandate to vote the purchase of anything at all. Which he then supplies via a frontman.
So, gentlemen, I decide to consider the purchase of the coach. as an entirely personal obligation.
Go to the Prince immediately, and ask him to cancel the purchase of painting.
Is it customary for an artist to purchase the wardrobe of his model?
Did you purchase it locally? It's the last one.
Miss Mary, the noted star that I have the honour to represent is unable to show us the receipt for the purchase of the diamond.
Your purchase of the property Doesn't establish a social bond between us.
I'd like to purchase a copy.
Mr Cathcart, a gentleman in your office wishes to purchase the Donatello.
The clothes, the purchase. you will play the housewife.
So that they purchase from you?
These decisions, even though they determine the purchase of the item itself, can't be taken standing still, let's keep walking.
But, your honor, Mrs. Garrison has priority of purchase.
However, here we're only concerned. with the legal aspect of the sale and purchase of property.
Since when is it immoral for someone to legally purchase a newspaper?

News and current affairs

When they cease their large-scale dollar-purchase programs, the value of the dollar will fall - and it will fall hard.
Why should the Federal Reserve allow long-term interest rates to spike just because other central banks have ceased their dollar-purchase programs?
PRINCETON - Imagine a two-state solution in Israel and Palestine in which Palestinians would have the right of return; Israelis could settle wherever they could purchase land in the West Bank; and Jerusalem need not be divided.
As we have seen, the White House built its case for war on a highly selective dossier of evidence, and Bush made statements about Iraq's attempt to purchase uranium from Africa that he and his staff knew to be highly doubtful, if not false.
If Iran develops its nuclear weapons, countries such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt would be tempted to purchase or develop nuclear weapons of their own.
That decision was intended to allow the Petersen Group to service the debts to banks, and to Repsol itself, that it incurred with its share purchase, for which it made no initial payment.
The ECB's announcement of a new program to purchase sovereign bonds has lowered market interest rates.
Today, for example, Europeans travel to the US to purchase human eggs from young women chosen on the basis of their presumed genetic characteristics.
And countries facing depressions and rapidly weakening inflation typically face very low borrowing costs: investors purchase government bonds for want of profitable alternatives.
But we can gain greater purchase on it by considering three other questions.
They tried to enter the US energy market with the purchase of Unocal, but were blocked by politicians.
But a wholesale purchase of government bonds does not raise similar concerns.
The purchase of government bonds is explicitly authorized by the EU Treaty.
Investors do not know what they are buying when they purchase an Italian bond - is it backstopped by Germany or not?
By building up savings over a few years, the farmers eventually become creditworthy, or have enough cash to purchase vitally necessary inputs on their own.
China can purchase more industrial machinery, transport equipment, and steelmaking material, which are among its leading imports from the US.
Those subsidies are a hidden form of government spending on everything from home mortgages and health insurance to the purchase of hybrid cars and residential solar panels.
Many homeowners who can afford to make their mortgage payments will choose to default, move to rental housing, and wait to purchase until house prices have declined further.
This model has proven its viability in Europe over a period of centuries, and its advantages are evident in the US even now with Bank of America's purchase of Merrill Lynch.
Moreover, the US Treasury has structured its Capital Purchase Program with disincentives for long-term government ownership.
You simply got everything you wanted (and probably much more) with the purchase of a computer.
Some have thus called upon major emerging countries to step up and use their huge foreign-exchange reserves to purchase the debt of crisis-ravaged countries, such as Greece, Italy, and Spain.
And the introduction of a Western-style rental market will allow families without substantial cash or parental support to move to cities (where families currently must purchase their apartments).
Soviet audiences watching films with apolitical themes nonetheless learned that people in the West did not have to stand in long lines to purchase food, did not live in communal apartments, and owned their own cars.

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