Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
- 2transitive verb
To obtain by paying money or its equivalent; to buy for a price; as, to purchase land, or a house.
- 3transitive verb
To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.; as, to purchase favor with flattery.
- 4transitive verb
To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
- 5transitive verb
To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance.
- 6transitive verb
To buy for a price.
- 7transitive 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.
- 8intransitive verb
To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert one's self.
- 9intransitive verb
To acquire wealth or property.
- 10transitive verb
The act of seeking, getting, or obtaining anything.
- 11transitive verb
The act of seeking and acquiring property.
- 12transitive verb
The acquisition of title to, or properly in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
- 13transitive verb
That which is obtained, got, or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
- 14transitive verb
That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
- 15transitive 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.
- 16transitive verb
Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.
- 17noun
the acquisition of something for payment
"they closed the purchase with a handshake"
- 18noun
a means of exerting influence or gaining advantage
"he could get no purchase on the situation"
- 19noun
the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever
Synonyms
- 20noun
something acquired by purchase
- 21verb
obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction
"The family purchased a new car"
"The conglomerate acquired a new company"
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