Definition of purchase

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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..

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Pennant :: Pennant (n.) A rope or strap to which a purchase is hooked.
Customer :: Customer (n.) One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer.
Buy :: Buy (v. i.) To negotiate or treat about a purchase.
Re-demption :: Re-demption (n.) The act of redeeming, or the state of being redeemed; repurchase; ransom; release; rescue; deliverance; as, the redemption of prisoners taken in war; the redemption of a ship and cargo..
Barker :: Barker (n.) One who stands at the doors of shops to urg/ passers by to make purchases.
Counter :: Counter (v. t.) A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a long, narrow table or bench, on which goods are laid for examination by purchasers, or on which they are weighed or measured..
Subpyriform :: Subpurchaser (n.) A purchaser who buys from a purchaser; one who buys at second hand.
Free :: Free (superl.) Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift..
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..
Boughten :: Boughten (a.) Purchased; not obtained or produced at home.
Drover :: Drover (n.) One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market..
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..
Bargain :: Bargain (n.) The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap..
Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) Any mechanical hold, or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle, capstan, and the like; also, the apparatus, tackle, or device by which the advantage is gained..
Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) To buy for a price.
Warrant :: Warrant (n.) To secure to, as a purchaser of goods, the title to the same; to indemnify against loss..
Bargain :: Bargain (n.) A purchase; also ( when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain..
Jigger :: "Jigger (n. & v.) A light tackle, consisting of a double and single block and the fall, used for various purposes, as to increase the purchase on a topsail sheet in hauling it home; the watch tackle..
Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.; as, to purchase favor with flattery..
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..
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