Definition of purchase

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Purchase (v. t.) The act of seeking and acquiring property.

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Perpetuity :: Perpetuity (n.) The number of years' purchase to be given for an annuity to continue forever.
Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) To buy for a price.
Trade :: Trade (v. i.) To barter, or to buy and sell; to be engaged in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or anything else; to traffic; to bargain; to carry on commerce as a business..
Purchased :: Purchased (imp. & p. p.) of Purchas.
Scorse :: Scorse (v. i.) To deal for the purchase of anything; to practice barter.
Specify :: Specify (v. t.) To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to specify articles purchased..
Debit :: Debit (v. t.) To charge with debt; -- the opposite of, and correlative to, credit; as, to debit a purchaser for the goods sold..
Contango :: Contango (n.) The premium or interest paid by the buyer to the seller, to be allowed to defer paying for the stock purchased until the next fortnightly settlement day..
Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement..
Aceldama :: Aceldama (n.) The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed..
Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) 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..
Bargain :: Bargain (n.) The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap..
Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
Sample :: Sample (n.) A part of anything presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen; as, goods are often purchased by samples..
Pennant :: Pennant (n.) A rope or strap to which a purchase is hooked.
Redeem :: Redeem (v. t.) To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.
Span :: Span (v. t.) A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used..
Whip :: Whip (v. t.) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
Investment :: Investment (n.) The laying out of money in the purchase of some species of property; the amount of money invested, or that in which money is invested..
Charge :: Charge (v. i.) To debit on an account; as, to charge for purchases..
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