purchase
Forms
- Plural
- purchases
- present (v1)
- purchase
- past (v2)
- purchased
- past participle (v3)
- purchased
- present participle
- purchasing
- 3rd person singular
- purchases
Definitions
1.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.
2.That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
- He was pleased with his latest purchase.
3.That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
4.A price paid for a house or estate, etc. equal to the amount of the rent or income during the stated number of years.
1.To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.
2.To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
- Your accent is something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling.
- His faults […] hereditary / Rather than purchased.
3.To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
4.To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
- Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2063
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English purchasen, from Anglo-Norman purchacer (“seek to obtain”) from pur- (from Latin pro-) + chac(i)er (“to chase, pursue”).
Compare Old French porchacier (“to follow, to chase”), which has given French pourchasser (“to chase without relent”).