Definition of purchase

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Purchase (v. t.) To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance.

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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..
Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (n.) A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out..
Purchaser :: Purchaser (n.) One who purchases; one who acquires property for a consideration, generally of money; a buyer; a vendee..
Cheap :: Cheap (n.) A bargain; a purchase; cheapness.
Bargain :: Bargain (n.) The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap..
Subpyriform :: Subpurchaser (n.) A purchaser who buys from a purchaser; one who buys at second hand.
Champertor :: Champertor (n.) One guilty of champerty; one who purchases a suit, or the right of suing, and carries it on at his own expense, in order to obtain a share of the gain..
Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire..
Fish :: Fish (n.) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
Engross :: Engross (v. t.) To purchase either the whole or large quantities of, for the purpose of enhancing the price and making a profit; hence, to take or assume in undue quantity, proportion, or degree; as, to engross commodities in market; to engross power..
Negotiator :: Negotiator (n.) One who negotiates; a person who treats with others, either as principal or agent, in respect to purchase and sale, or public compacts..
Bought :: Bought (p. a.) Purchased; bribed.
Blood Money :: Blood money () Money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life; -- said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained for betraying a fugitive or for committing murder, or of money obtained from the sale of that which will destroy the purchaser..
Prompt-note :: Prompt-note (n.) A memorandum of a sale, and time when payment is due, given to the purchaser at a sale of goods..
Buyer :: Buyer (n.) One who buys; a purchaser.
Market :: Market (n.) Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull market; a slow market..
Tackle :: Tackle (n.) The rigging and apparatus of a ship; also, any purchase where more than one block is used..
Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) To buy for a price.
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..
Buy :: Buy (v. t.) To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to sell..
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