[
US
/ˈpɝtʃəs/
]
[ UK /pˈɜːtʃɪs/ ]
[ UK /pˈɜːtʃɪs/ ]
VERB
-
obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction
The family purchased a new car
She buys for the big department store
The conglomerate acquired a new company
NOUN
-
a means of exerting influence or gaining advantage
he could get no purchase on the situation - the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever
-
the acquisition of something for payment
they closed the purchase with a handshake - something acquired by purchase
How To Use purchase In A Sentence
- - PBL Media and ninemsn jointly purchased 35% of 3P the owner of Mathletics, a subscription driven website that has 400K students in Aust + NZ using it. 400K Mathletics X $99 Per Annum = 35% ninemsn.
- Moreover, it is expressly added that if the day before the Passover falls on a Sabbath, one may in this manner purchase a Paschal lamb, and, presumably, all else that is needful for the feast.
- In 1860 ￡2-10-0 was voted for the purchase of Gaelic books; the catalogue of 1865 contained 25 titles.
- Daniel showed us his newly purchased tunicle which also came with a stole and a couple of maniples.
- During the take-over battle the stock quotations of both enterprises rose so that an investor would have to wait several hundred years to finance the purchase price of the shares from the present level of profits.
- Hopefully you have purchased a Security Suite (antivirus, firewall, antispyware, etc) from a RELIABLE vendor (like McAfee) and have it properly configured and automatically updating … if so, you probably would not have been infected … SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 111
- Net interest income dropped to $256.4 million, primarily due to the low market-interest rates that resulted in lower yields on mortgage-related interest-earning assets as customers refinanced to lower mortgage rates and new loans and asset purchases were at the current low market interest rates. Hudson City Bancorp Swings to Loss
- She arranged for a sizeable loan from the temple based on her deposits there and then purchased a great store of corn from the temple granaries.
- And it was perhaps insensitive to try to sell pet funerals to distressed purchasers. Times, Sunday Times
- Where the company is seeking general authority to purchase shares in the market they must state their intentions regarding the authority granted.
