purchase
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
purchase/ˈpɜːtʃəs/
▶verb
- 1 buy (something).
- 2 Nautical haul up (a rope, cable, or anchor) by means of a pulley or lever.
- 1 the action of buying.
■ a thing bought.
■ Law the acquisition of property by one's personal action rather than by inheritance.
- 2 firm contact or grip.
- 3 a pulley or similar device for moving heavy objects.
- 4 archaic the annual rent or return from land.
– derivatives
purchasable adjective,
purchaser noun.
purchasable adjective,
purchaser noun.
– origin ME: from OFr. pourchacier ‘seek to obtain or bring about’.
'purchase' also found in these Oxford entries:
aftercare
- bulk buying
- buy
- buyer
- buy-in
- buyout
- cash
- cashback
- caveat emptor
- compulsory purchase
- counter
- countertrade
- coupon
- debit card
- delete
- effective demand
- exchange
- finance company
- fitting room
- fulcrum
- hire purchase
- h.p.
- internal market
- layaway
- lay-by
- leveraged buyout
- manciple
- market
- mis-sell
- never-never
- pre-emption
- purchase tax
- quotation
- residual
- sale
- ship
- span
- straddle
- tester
- tie-in
- unmerchantable
- venal
