purchase

purchase is a 8-letter English word with 21 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 17 · 21 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
2. transitive verb. To obtain by paying money or its equivalent; to buy for a price; as, to purchase land, or a house.
3. transitive verb. To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.; as, to purchase favor with flattery.
4. transitive verb. To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
5. transitive verb. To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance.
6. transitive verb. To buy for a price.
7. transitive verb. 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.
8. intransitive verb. To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert one's self.
9. intransitive verb. To acquire wealth or property.
10. transitive verb. The act of seeking, getting, or obtaining anything.
11. transitive verb. The act of seeking and acquiring property.
12. transitive verb. The acquisition of title to, or properly in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
13. transitive verb. That which is obtained, got, or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
14. transitive verb. That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
15. transitive verb. 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.
16. transitive verb. Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.
17. noun. the acquisition of something for payment

    "they closed the purchase with a handshake"

18. noun. a means of exerting influence or gaining advantage

    "he could get no purchase on the situation"

19. noun. the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever

    Synonyms: leverage

20. noun. something acquired by purchase
21. verb. obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction

    "The family purchased a new car"

    "The conglomerate acquired a new company"

    Synonyms: buy

Synonyms

leverage, buy

Common word forms

purchased, purchaser, purchases, purchasing, purchaseable

Words from these letters

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