English > purchase: 5 senses > verb 1, possession| Meaning | Obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something from somebody |
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| Model | The children purchase the ball |
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| Example | "The family purchased a new car" |
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| Synonym | buy |
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| Category | commerce, commercialism, mercantilism | transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) |
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| Entails | choose, take, select, pick out | pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives |
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| pay | Give money, usually in exchange for goods or services |
| Entailed by | check out | record, add up, and receive payment for items purchased |
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| save | spend less |
| shop | Do one's shopping / shopping |
| trade, merchandise | Engage in the trade of |
| Narrower | buy back, repurchase | buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away |
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| get | purchase |
| impulse-buy | buy on impulse without proper reflection |
| pick up | buy casually or spontaneously |
| subscribe, subscribe to, take | Receive or obtain regularly |
| take | buy, select |
| take out, buy food | purchase prepared food to be eaten at home |
| take over, buy out, buy up | take over ownership of |
| Broader | get, acquire | Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract |
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| Opposite | sell | Exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent |
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| Similar to | buy | Be worth or be capable of buying |
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| Catalan | adquirir, comprar |
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| Spanish | adquirir, comprar |
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| Nouns | purchase | the acquisition of something for payment |
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| purchase | something acquired by purchase |
| purchaser | a person who buys |
| purchasing | the act of buying |