Word Meanings - PURCHASE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

purchacier, to pursue, to seek eagerly, F. pourchasser; OF. pour, 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

Additional info about word: PURCHASE

purchacier, to pursue, to seek eagerly, F. pourchasser; OF. pour, 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. Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses. Shak. To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance. Blackstone. To buy for a price. 6. To apply to a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; as, to purchase a cannon.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PURCHASE)

• Buy
• Purchase
• bribe
• subsidize
• suborn

Related words: (words related to PURCHASE)

• PURCHASE
  purchacier, to pursue, to seek eagerly, F. pourchasser; OF. pour, 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
• BRIBER
  1. A thief. Lydgate. 2. One who bribes, or pays for corrupt practices. 3. That which bribes; a bribe. His service . . . were a sufficient briber for his life. Shak.
• SUBORNER
  One who suborns or procures another to take, a false oath; one who procures another to do a bad action.
• SUBORN
  To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken. Sir W. O. Russell. 2. To procure privately, or by collusion; to procure by indirect means; to incite secretly; to instigate. Thou art suborned against
• BRIBE
  , LL. briba scrap of bread; cf. OF. briber, brifer, to eat gluttonously, to beg, and OHG. bilibi 1. A gift begged; a present. Chaucer. 2. A price, reward, gift, or favor bestowed or promised with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the
• SUBORNATION
  The act of suborning; the crime of procuring a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury. Blackstone. 2. The sin or offense of procuring one to do a criminal or bad action, as by bribes or persuasion. Foul subornation is predominant.
• PURCHASER
  One who acquires an estate in lands by his own act or agreement, or who takes or obtains an estate by any means other than by descent or inheritance. (more info) 1. One who purchases; one who acquires property for a consideration, generally of
• BRIBERY
  1. Robbery; extortion. 2. The act or practice of giving or taking bribes; the act of influencing the official or political action of another by corrupt inducements. Bribery oath, an oath taken by a person that he has not been bribed as to voting.
• SUBSIDIZE
  To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money; as, to subsidize a steamship line. He employed the remittances from Spain to subsidize a large body
• BRIBELESS
  Incapable of being bribed; free from bribes. From thence to heaven's bribeless hall. Sir W. Raleigh.
• YEAR'S PURCHASE
  The amount that is yielded by the annual income of property; -- used in expressing the value of a thing in the number of years required for its income to yield its purchase price, in reckoning the amount to be paid for annuities, etc.
• HIRE PURCHASE; HIRE PURCHASE AGREEMENT; HIRE AND PURCHASE AGREEMENT
  A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a person hires goods for a specified period and at a fixed rent, with the added condition that if he shall retain the goods for the full period and pay
• REPURCHASE
  To buy back or again; to regain by purchase. Sir M. Hale.
• OUTBRIBE
  To surpass in bribing.
• SUBPURCHASER
  A purchaser who buys from a purchaser; one who buys at second hand.