Synonyms for purchasing

Grammar : Noun

Spell : pur-chuhs

Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɜr tʃəs

Définition of purchasing

Origin : c.1300, "acquire, obtain; get, receive; procure, provide," also "accomplish or bring about; instigate; cause, contrive, plot; recruit, hire," from Anglo-French purchaser "go after," Old French porchacier "search for, procure; purchase; aim at, strive for, pursue eagerly" (11c., Modern French pourchasser), from pur- "forth" (possibly used here as an intensive prefix; see pur-) + Old French chacier "run after, to hunt, chase" (see chase (v.)).
Originally to obtain or receive as due in any way, including through merit or suffering; specific sense of "acquire for money, pay money for, buy" is from mid-14c., though the word continued to be used for "to get by conquest in war, obtain as booty" up to 17c. Related: Purchased; purchasing.

noun buying

Example sentences :

How may the kind and quality of flour be judged in purchasing it?
Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 1 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

Here are children in abundance, and what benefit could have accrued to me from his purchasing Vernon?
Extract from : « Lady Susan » by Jane Austen

He is desirous of purchasing some Leicestershires for his estate in Burgundy.
Extract from : « Vivian Grey » by Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli

For some time he seemed to set his mind on purchasing Tewitt Hall.
Extract from : « Adventures and Recollections » by Bill o'th' Hoylus End

It was different to purchasing it, ready-made, or hiring labor.
Extract from : « The Golden Woman » by Ridgwell Cullum

I have a project about purchasing some property on the coast here.
Extract from : « Luttrell Of Arran » by Charles James Lever

This was the exclusive right of purchasing such lands as the natives were willing to sell.
Extract from : « Opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States, at January Term, 1832, Delivered by Mr. Chief Justice Marshall in the Case of Samuel A. Worcester, Plaintiff in Error, versus the State of Georgia » by John Marshall

Two of the men who came up from the South were purchasing property.
Extract from : « Negro Migration during the War » by Emmett J. Scott

The Legislature should aid the society in purchasing grounds.
Extract from : « Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. » by Various

Why, by purchasing masters of our prime rank and special style.
Extract from : « George Bowring - A Tale Of Cader Idris » by R. D. Blackmore

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