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purchasing |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Purchase \Pur"chase\ (?; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Purchased}; p. pr & vb n. {Purchasing}.] [OE. purchasen, porchacen OF porchacier purchacier to pursue, to seek eagerly, F. pourchasser OF pour, por, pur, for (L. pro) + chacier to pursue, to chase. See {Chase}.] 1. To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire. --Chaucer. That loves the thing he can not purchase. --Spenser. Your accent is Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling. --Shak. His faults . . . hereditary Rather than purchased. --Shak. 2. To obtain by paying money or its equivalent; to buy for a price; as to purchase land, or a house. The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth. --Gen. xxv. 10. 3. To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.; as to purchase favor with flattery. One poor retiring minute . . . Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends. --Shak. A world who would not purchase with a bruise? --Milton. 4. To expiate by a fine or forfeit. [Obs.] Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses. --Shak. 5. (Law) a To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance. --Blackstone. b To buy for a price. 6. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: purchasing n : the act of buying; "buying equipment for the trip took several hours" [syn: {buying}]
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