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Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) The acquisition of title to, or properly in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent..

Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) To buy for a price.

Danegelt :: Danegelt (n.) An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy off the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to oppose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm..

Earnest :: Earnest (n.) Something of value given by the buyer to the seller, by way of token or pledge, to bind the bargain and prove the sale..

Handle :: Handle (v. t.) To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell; as, a merchant handles a variety of goods, or a large stock..

Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) To obtain by paying money or its equivalent; to buy for a price; as, to purchase land, or a house..

Preemption :: Preemption (n.) The privilege or prerogative formerly enjoyed by the king of buying provisions for his household in preference to others.

Tare :: Tare (n.) Deficientcy in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask, bag, or whatever contains the commodity, and is weighed with it; hence, the allowance or abatement of a certain weight or quantity which the seller makes to the buyer on account of the weight of such cask, bag, etc..

Chapman :: Chapman (n.) One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller.

Traffic :: Traffic (v. i.) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.

Overtrading :: Overtrading (n.) The act or practice of buying goods beyond the means of payment; a glutting of the market.

Trade :: Trade (v. i.) To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance.

Ticketing :: Ticketing (n.) A periodical sale of ore in the English mining districts; -- so called from the tickets upon which are written the bids of the buyers.

Nundinate :: Nundinate (a.) To buy and sell at fairs or markets.

Boroughmonger :: Boroughmonger (n.) One who buys or sells the parliamentary seats of boroughs.

Regrate :: Regrate (v. t.) To buy in large quantities, as corn, provisions, etc., at a market or fair, with the intention of selling the same again, in or near the same place, at a higher price, -- a practice which was formerly treated as a public offense..

Mart :: Mart (v. t.) To buy or sell in, or as in, a mart..

Mercantile :: Mercantile (a.) Of or pertaining to merchants, or the business of merchants; having to do with trade, or the buying and selling of commodities; commercial..

Chaffer :: Chaffer (v. t.) To buy or sell; to trade in.

Againbuy :: Againbuy (v. t.) To redeem.

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