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From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.
Alex Campbell

Meaning of "purchase" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PURCHASE

From Old French porchacier to strive to obtain, from por- for + chacier to chase1.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PURCHASE

purchase  [ˈpɜːtʃɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PURCHASE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Purchase is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb purchase in English.

WHAT DOES PURCHASE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

purchase

Purchasing

Purchasing refers to a business or organization attempting to acquiring goods or services to accomplish the goals of its enterprise. Though there are several organizations that attempt to set standards in the purchasing process, processes can vary greatly between organizations. Typically the word “purchasing” is not used interchangeably with the word “procurement”, since procurement typically includes expediting, supplier quality, and traffic and logistics in addition to purchasing.

Definition of purchase in the English dictionary

The first definition of purchase in the dictionary is to obtain by payment. Other definition of purchase is to obtain by effort, sacrifice, etc. Purchase is also to draw, haul, or lift with the aid of mechanical apparatus.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PURCHASE

PRESENT

Present
I purchase
you purchase
he/she/it purchases
we purchase
you purchase
they purchase
Present continuous
I am purchasing
you are purchasing
he/she/it is purchasing
we are purchasing
you are purchasing
they are purchasing
Present perfect
I have purchased
you have purchased
he/she/it has purchased
we have purchased
you have purchased
they have purchased
Present perfect continuous
I have been purchasing
you have been purchasing
he/she/it has been purchasing
we have been purchasing
you have been purchasing
they have been purchasing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I purchased
you purchased
he/she/it purchased
we purchased
you purchased
they purchased
Past continuous
I was purchasing
you were purchasing
he/she/it was purchasing
we were purchasing
you were purchasing
they were purchasing
Past perfect
I had purchased
you had purchased
he/she/it had purchased
we had purchased
you had purchased
they had purchased
Past perfect continuous
I had been purchasing
you had been purchasing
he/she/it had been purchasing
we had been purchasing
you had been purchasing
they had been purchasing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will purchase
you will purchase
he/she/it will purchase
we will purchase
you will purchase
they will purchase
Future continuous
I will be purchasing
you will be purchasing
he/she/it will be purchasing
we will be purchasing
you will be purchasing
they will be purchasing
Future perfect
I will have purchased
you will have purchased
he/she/it will have purchased
we will have purchased
you will have purchased
they will have purchased
Future perfect continuous
I will have been purchasing
you will have been purchasing
he/she/it will have been purchasing
we will have been purchasing
you will have been purchasing
they will have been purchasing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would purchase
you would purchase
he/she/it would purchase
we would purchase
you would purchase
they would purchase
Conditional continuous
I would be purchasing
you would be purchasing
he/she/it would be purchasing
we would be purchasing
you would be purchasing
they would be purchasing
Conditional perfect
I would have purchase
you would have purchase
he/she/it would have purchase
we would have purchase
you would have purchase
they would have purchase
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been purchasing
you would have been purchasing
he/she/it would have been purchasing
we would have been purchasing
you would have been purchasing
they would have been purchasing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you purchase
we let´s purchase
you purchase
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to purchase
Past participle
purchased
Present Participle
purchasing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PURCHASE


archduchess
ˈɑːtʃˈdʌtʃɪs
duchess
ˈdʌtʃɪs
duchesse
ˈdʌtʃɪs
prepurchase
priːˈpɜːtʃɪs
repurchase
riːˈpɜːtʃɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PURCHASE

purblind
purblindly
purblindness
Purcell
purchasability
purchasable
purchase ledger
purchase money
purchase order
purchase price
purchase tax
purchaser
purchasing
purchasing department
purchasing officer
purchasing power
purda
purdah
purdonium
pure

WORDS THAT END LIKE PURCHASE

car chase
chase
compulsory purchase
cut to the chase
enchase
Gadsden Purchase
give chase
goose chase
hire purchase
hire-purchase
impulse purchase
Louisiana Purchase
money-purchase
out of phase
paper chase
phase
proof of purchase
steeplechase
the chase
wild-goose chase

Synonyms and antonyms of purchase in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PURCHASE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «purchase» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of purchase

Translation of «purchase» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PURCHASE

Find out the translation of purchase to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of purchase from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «purchase» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

购买
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

adquirir
570 millions of speakers

English

purchase
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

खरीद
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يَشْتَرِي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

приобретать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

comprar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্রয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

acquérir
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pembelian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

kaufen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

購入する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

사다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tuku
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mua
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கொள்முதல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खरेदी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

satın alma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

acquistare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nabyć
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

купувати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

a cumpăra
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αγοράζω
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

aankoop
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

köp
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

innkjøp
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of purchase

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PURCHASE»

The term «purchase» is very widely used and occupies the 1.845 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PURCHASE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «purchase» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «purchase» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about purchase

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10 QUOTES WITH «PURCHASE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word purchase.
1
Norman Ralph Augustine
Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them.
2
Andy Behrman
My eating habits are the only behaviour of mine that are still manic. I can't walk by a restaurant, a bakery, an ice-cream store or a candy store without making a purchase; the amount of calories I take in today are at least five times as many as I took before starting on all of this medication.
3
Michael Berryman
We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything.
4
Allen Boyd
It is time for Congress to provide relief for tobacco farmers. Since the 1930's tobacco production has been regulated by a quota system, which required farmers to purchase quota in order to grow tobacco.
5
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
By packaging a full album into a bundle of music with ringtones, videos and other combinations and variations, we found products that consumers demonstrably valued and were willing to purchase at premium prices. And guess what? We've sold tons of them.
6
Bill Bruford
I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were happy with their purchase, but are increasingly coming again.
7
Gary Calamar
The first purchase I made with my own money was a single by The Kinks, "All Day and All of the Night" and still one of my all time favorites.
8
Alex Campbell
From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.
9
Barbara Corcoran
Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.
10
John Cornyn
The Supreme Court has never ruled that Congress can use the Commerce Clause to require individuals to engage in an activity they have chosen to avoid. Yet that is precisely what Obamacare does: It forces Americans without health insurance to purchase coverage. Such a requirement is unprecedented and unconstitutional.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PURCHASE»

Discover the use of purchase in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to purchase and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Psychotherapy: The Purchase of Friendship
This book, first published in 1964, is an urgent call for a new specialist, a psychotherapist trained as a specialist in therapeutic conversation.
William Schofield, 1986
2
Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture
A sociologist reveals how shopping has changed American life, its influence radiating out into the economic and cultural sectors, impacting everything from fashion to the internet, while also inspiring consumerism all over the world and ...
Sharon Zukin, 2004
3
The Purchase of Intimacy
In The Purchase of Intimacy, Viviana Zelizer mounts a provocative challenge to this view.
Viviana A. Zelizer, 2009
4
The Louisiana Purchase: A Historical and Geographical ...
Alphabetical entries cover significant events, personalities, and documents associated with the Louisiana Purchase.
Junius P. Rodriguez, 2002
5
Genealogy of the Purchase Family in Britain and Southern ...
A fascinating book covering fourteen generations of the extended Purchase family. The Purchase ancestors from England were related to Rev. Charles Haddon Spurgeon from London and were missionaries to Southern Africa.
Nancy R. Purchase, H. Graham Purchase, 2008
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Purchase Order Management Best Practices: Process, ...
This text provides a breakthrough start-to-finish roadmap for organisations to implement the POM transformation program successfully.
Ehap H. Sabri, Arun P. Gupta, Michael A. Beitler, 2006
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An Evaluation of the Food Safety Requirements of the Federal ...
The book finds that although the safety requirements could be strengthened using scientific concepts, the prevention of future outbreaks of foodborne disease will depend on eliminating contamination during production and ensuring meat is ...
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, Committee on an Evaluation of the Food Safety Requirements of the Federal Purchase Ground Beef Program, Division on Earth and Life Studies, 2010
8
A Primer on Negotiating Corporate Purchase Contracts
Planning for a negotiation is an important skill set that can impact the bottom line and help your company save money. The process within this book has saved companies millions of dollars!
Patrick Penfield, 2009
9
The Louisiana Purchase: Would You Close the Deal?
"A basic discussion about the history of the Louisiana Purchase, and how the United States expanded their lands by buying the Louisiana Territory from France"--Provided by publisher.
Elaine Landau, 2008
10
The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion, 1803-1898
In this long overdue collection, Sanford Levinson and Bartholomew Sparrow bring together noted scholars in American history, constitutional law, and political science to examine the role that the Louisiana Purchase played in shaping both ...
Sanford Levinson, Bartholomew H. Sparrow, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PURCHASE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term purchase is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Commissioners approve purchase of new fire truck
MIAMI — In a brief special meeting Wednesday, the Ottawa County Commission approved the lease-purchase of a new fire truck for the Quapaw Fire ... «Miami News Record, Jul 15»
2
Shakopee School Board OKs land purchase for future school
The Shakopee School Board Monday night approved a 20-acre land purchase near the intersection of County Roads 78 and 79 for a future school location. «SW News Media, Jul 15»
3
SCAM: Facebook coupon for $100 off a purchase at Publix …
SCAM: Facebook coupon for $100 off a purchase at Publix Supermarkets is fraudulent. Heidi Barley, Rachel Leitao. 5:27 PM, Jul 12, 2015. 6:56 PM, Jul 13, ... «WPTV.com, Jul 15»
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FBI says Dylann Roof should not have been cleared to purchase a …
(CNN) Dylann Roof, the man who allegedly killed nine people in a Charleston church last month, should not have been able to buy a gun used in the slaughter, ... «CNN, Jul 15»
5
Guild Wars 2 Gets Additional Pre-Purchase Bonus After Complaints
By Wesley CopelandArenaNet has responded to player feedback by announcing new rewards for veterans and a refund policy for those who purchased the ... «IGN, Jun 15»
6
OPS board OKs $5.8M purchase of old Ryan High campus for new …
The OPS school board voted Monday to purchase the Liberty Christian Center property — known to many as the old Archbishop Ryan High School campus ... «Omaha World-Herald, Jun 15»
7
Steam now offers refunds on any newly purchased game for any …
Anyone who has purchased games from Steam and survived at least one Steam Sale knows well the pain of the regrettable impulse purchase. If a game is on ... «ExtremeTech, Jun 15»
8
Harris completes purchase of Exelis
Harris Corp. on Friday completed its purchase of Exelis, which operates a night vision manufacturing plant in Roanoke County. How the previously announced ... «Roanoke Times, May 15»
9
Attleboro moving on electricity purchase plan
Under the arrangement, customers who currently purchase electricity from National Grid would automatically be enrolled, but could opt out if they wished and ... «The Sun Chronicle, May 15»
10
VA Spent $5 billion-plus on Improper Medical Supply Purchases
Veterans Affairs Department employees using purchase cards improperly spent at least $5 billion on medical supplies, including prosthetics, a senior VA official ... «Military.com, May 15»

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