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purchase 音標拼音: [p'ɚtʃəs] n. 購買,購買品,價值,緊握,起重裝置
vt. 購買,贏得,努力取得,舉起 購買,購買品,價值,緊握,起重裝置購買,贏得,努力取得,舉起 purchase訂單登錄-採購 purchase採購 purchase n 1: the acquisition of something for payment; " they closed the purchase with a handshake" 2: something acquired by purchase 3: a means of exerting influence or gaining advantage; " he could get no purchase on the situation" 4: the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever [ synonym: { leverage}, { purchase}] v 1: obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; " The family purchased a new car"; " The conglomerate acquired a new company"; " She buys for the big department store" [ synonym: { buy}, { purchase}] [ ant: { sell}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] That loves the thing he can not purchase. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] Your accent is Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] His faults . . . hereditary Rather than purchased. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To obtain by paying money or its equivalent; to buy for a price; as, to purchase land, or a house. [ 1913 Webster] The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth. -- Gen. xxv. 10. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.; as, to purchase favor with flattery. [ 1913 Webster] One poor retiring minute . . . Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] A world who would not purchase with a bruise? -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To expiate by a fine or forfeit. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 5. ( Law) ( a) To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance. -- Blackstone. ( b) To buy for a price. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster]
Purchase \ Pur" chase\, v. i. 1. To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert one' s self. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage. -- Ld. Berners. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To acquire wealth or property. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Sure our lawyers Would not purchase half so fast. -- J. Webster. [ 1913 Webster]
Purchase \ Pur" chase\ (?; 48), n. [ OE. purchds, F. pourchas eager pursuit. See { Purchase}, v. t.] 1. The act of seeking, getting, or obtaining anything. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] I' ll . . . get meat to have thee, Or lose my life in the purchase. -- Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster] 2. The act of seeking and acquiring property. [ 1913 Webster] 3. The acquisition of title to, or properly in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent. [ 1913 Webster] It is foolish to lay out money in the purchase of repentance. -- Franklin. [ 1913 Webster] 4. That which is obtained, got, or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition. -- Chaucer. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster] We met with little purchase upon this coast, except two small vessels of Golconda. -- De Foe. [ 1913 Webster] A beauty- waning and distressed widow . . . Made prize and purchase of his lustful eye. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 5. That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent. " The scrip was complete evidence of his right in the purchase." -- Wheaton. [ 1913 Webster] 6. Any mechanical hold, or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle, capstan, and the like; also, the apparatus, tackle, or device by which the advantage is gained. [ 1913 Webster] A politician, to do great things, looks for a power -- what our workmen call a purchase. -- Burke. [ 1913 Webster] 7. ( Law) Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance, namely, by one' s own act or agreement. -- Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster] { Purchase criminal}, robbery. [ Obs.] -- Spenser. { Purchase money}, the money paid, or contracted to be paid, for anything bought. -- Berkeley. { Worth [ so many] years' purchase}, or { At [ so many] years' purchase}, a phrase by which the value or cost of a thing is expressed in the length of time required for the income to amount to the purchasing price; as, he bought the estate at a twenty years' purchase. To say one' s life is { not worth a day' s purchase} in the same as saying one will not live a day, or is in imminent peril. [ 1913 Webster] 135 Moby Thesaurus words for " purchase": achieve, acquire, acquiring, acquisition, advantage, approach, ascendancy, attain, authority, bear hug, bite, bribe, buy, buy back, buy in, buy into, buy off, buy on credit, buy up, buying, charisma, charm, clamp, clasp, clench, clinch, cling, clinging, clout, clutch, complete a purchase, consequence, control, corner, corrupt, credit, death grip, dominance, domination, edge, effect, embrace, eminence, enchantment, engross, esteem, favor, firm hold, fix, foothold, footing, footplate, footrail, footrest, force, gain, get, get at, get to, good feeling, grapple, grasp, grease, grease the palm, grip, gripe, hold, hug, importance, incidental power, influence, influentiality, insinuation, iron grip, leadership, leverage, locus standi, magnetism, make a buy, mastery, moment, monopolize, nip, obtain, obtaining, pay for, pay off, perch, personality, persuasion, position, potency, power, predominance, preponderance, pressure, prestige, procure, procurement, purchasing, reach, realize, rebuy, regrate, reign, repurchase, repute, rule, say, secure, securing, seizure, stance, stand, standing, standing place, suasion, suborn, subtle influence, suggestion, support, supremacy, sway, tackle, take, take care of, tamper with, tickle the palm, tight grip, toehold, traction, upper hand, weight, whip hand, winPURCHASE. In its most enlarged and technical sense, purchase signifies the lawful acquisition of real estate by any means whatever, except descent. It is thus defined by Littleton, section 12. " Purchase is called the possession of lands or tenements that a man hath by his own deed or agreement, unto which possession he cometh, not by title of descent from any of his ancestors or cousins, but by his own deed." 2. It follows, therefore, that not only when a man acquires an estate by buying it for a good or valuable consideration, but also when it is given or devised to him be acquires it by purchase. 2 Bl. Com. 241. 3. There are six ways of acquiring a title by purchase, namely, 1. By, deed. 2. By devise. 3. By execution. 4. By prescription. 5. By possession, or occupancy. 6. By escheat. In its more limited sense, purchase is applied only to such acquisitions of lands as are obtained by way of bargain and sale for money, or some other valuable consideration. Id. Cruise, Dig. tit. 30, s. 1, to 4; 1 Dall. R. 20. In common parlance, purchase signifies the buying of real estate and of goods and chattels. |
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