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Antonyms for purchase

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : pur-chuhs
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɜr tʃəs

Definition of purchase

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 possession obtained with money
  • verb buy, obtain
Example sentences :
  • I suspect that she was the means of influencing so large a purchase.
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • But she cannot surely be so mean as to purchase her peace with them at so dear a rate.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • The purchase of official positions in the army was thus abolished.
  • Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
  • He had made up his mind to put an end to the purchase of commissions in the army.
  • Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
  • What precautions should be taken in the purchase of shell fish?
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 3 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • If he wanted to make a purchase he did not go to several stores for prices.
  • Extract from : « Dust » by Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
  • Purchase wealth by her safety and satisfy your revenge with a single victim.
  • Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • The purchase of that which neither belongs to the seller, nor can belong to the buyer.
  • Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
  • But after she had purchased all of youth which age can purchase for money, it would not do.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 9 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • During the day I passed at Springfield I called at a gunsmith's to purchase a rifle.
  • Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt

Synonyms for purchase

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