(v. t.) To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
(v. t.) To obtain by paying money or its equivalent; to buy for a price; as, to purchase land, or a house.
(v. t.) To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.; as, to purchase favor with flattery.
(v. t.) To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
(v. t.) To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance.
(v. t.) To buy for a price.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert one's self.
(v. i.) To acquire wealth or property.
(v. t.) The act of seeking, getting, or obtaining anything.
(v. t.) The act of seeking and acquiring property.
(v. t.) The acquisition of title to, or properly in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
(v. t.) That which is obtained, got, or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
(v. t.) That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Britain had been negotiating with the Saudis over the purchase from British Aerospace of dozens of Hawk and Tornado fighter aircraft.
(2) The Sports Network broadcasts live NHL, Nascar, golf and horse racing – having also recently purchased the rights for Formula One – and will show 154 of the 196 games that NBC will cover.
(3) This study sought to determine if and why barriers to the over-the-counter purchase of syringes in the St. Louis metropolitan area might exist, given that no ordinance prohibits such a sale there.
(4) The government’s increase in the discount offered to tenants has prompted a massive increase in purchases of local authority accommodation.
(5) Following baseline, training consisted of teaching students to use a number line to make purchases.
(6) In the first experiment, mongrel and ddS mice produced under an unsatisfactory control of proximate environment were purchased, and acute toxicity tests of thiamine hydrochloride (B1HCl) and isonicotinic acid hydrazide (INAH) were practiced at two different conditioned rooms.
(7) Our fundamental market is 75% done,” he said last weekend, “and when we sign one midfield player that crucial work will be done.” The manager did not rule out further purchases, though.
(8) After a brief review of the range of monitoring accessories, the author considers the problem of their hospital standardization (various needs of the different hospital units, diversity of the monitors, existence of central purchasing departments, pressure from the treasurer's office).
(9) As well as stocking second-hand items for purchase, charity shops such as Oxfam have launched Christmas gifts to provide specific help for poor communities abroad.
(10) Like many young Chinese, Hua often made purchases on Taobao, the country’s equivalent of eBay.
(11) Howard Archer of consultancy IHS Global Insight said: "Given the dominant role of the services sector in the economy, the steady growth in May reported by the purchasing managers is welcome news and supports hopes that it can avoid further contraction in the second quarter."
(12) The CML said the value of lending for house purchases was up by 8% year on year in May, at £9.4bn, while the number of loans grew by 5% to 53,800.
(13) Tesco uniforms can be bought through the supermarket's Clubcard Boost scheme, where £5 in Clubcard vouchers equals a £10 spend on clothing, while Asda is offering free delivery on uniform purchases of over £25.
(14) It's possible to go out and about, and not talk to anybody apart from the person you purchase goods from."
(15) The company is also making its VR games collection free to all purchasers of its headset.
(16) The FSA last month published a report by Professor Gerard Hastings which concluded that advertising to children does have an effect on their food preferences, purchasing behaviour and consumption, and that these effects occur not just at brand level, but also for different types of food.
(17) That would mark a controversial break from its existing policy, whereby the ECB offsets bond purchases by draining liquidity from the system in separate operations.
(18) The news website is run by journalist Carmen Aristegui, who in 2014 reported that Peña Nieto’s wife was purchasing a house with financing from a government contractor .
(19) For example, if we purchase new examination equipment without any consideration or if we decide what type of equipment to introduce according to the common advice of the purchase committee of the hospital or the medical school, then we cannot design an ideal system of laboratory examinations and are forced to invest a large sum of money in vain.
(20) The euro clawed back some losses after the European Central Bank said it would absorb €16.5bn from the money markets to compensate for bond purchases up to 14 May, and Greece said it would receive the first tranche of emergency loans tomorrow.
Venal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to veins; venous; as, venal blood.
(a.) Capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration; made matter of trade or barter; held for sale; salable; mercenary; purchasable; hireling; as, venal services.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is not about who is tied to the most money – "there are so many people you could think should be taken" – but about who is judged to be too busy establishing their own kingdoms and using the party's authority purely for their own venal ends.
(2) The political charge sheet is long: incompetence, weakness, venality.
(3) All the while, a long list of corrupt and venal despots turned their rule into virtual kleptocracies and stole their children's futures.
(4) Given the venality of the system, Putin even said he could empathise with the protesters in Maidan square .
(5) That “trollumnist” Mark Latham, that “misogynist”, “venal”, “crazy-eyed moron” whose views should be “rejected and dismantled and kicked into the gutter where they belong” has resigned from the Australian Financial Review.
(6) Moral leader The Daily Mail on the FA's refusal to comment on JT: "Even in the sleazy, venal world of football, Terry's record was unforgivable.
(7) Plasma cadmium and zinc were determined by atomic absorption spectrophotometry in inferior venal caval or peripheral venous blood in thrity hypertensive patients and fifteen normal subjects.
(8) The difference between the "rotten apple" (venal or incompetent physician) and the "bad apple" (careless or aggressive physician) is cited.
(9) Pigs to peerages: Lord Ashcroft’s act of revenge shows British politics at its venal worst | Simon Jenkins Read more Working for Gordon Brown , a man of Victorian sensibilities and a volatile temper, the second call was invariably greeted with the single word “What?
(10) Changes in the choroidal vasculature include: Venal focal dilations and narrowings, increased tortuosity, hypercellularity, increased formation of vascular loops and microaneurysms in choriocapillaries and formation of sinus-like structures between choroidal lobules.
(11) The restoration of integrity in banking will not happen without changes in the law to introduce serious criminal sanctions against venal traders and grossly negligent bosses.
(12) Thus the therapeutic usefulness for the treatment of chronic venal insufficiency is proven.
(13) Nice for those in the art world who view this approach as testimony to my venality, shallowness, malevolence.
(14) Did the Kelly affair crystallise everything that was wrong and venal about the whole Iraq adventure for Yorke?
(15) Corporations-are-people got the righteous ink, but the venal sin at the heart of Citizens United lies in the appalling equivocation that declares money to be speech.
(16) Yet some analysts say that the drive has simply pushed lavish official banquets and venal gift-giving underground .
(17) Dan Snyder’s former general manager, Vinny Cerrato, seems to suspect as much , and every crass venal thing everyone knows about Dan Snyder suggests Cerrato isn’t wrong.
(18) The authors, American researchers attached to special forces, conclude that the weakness and venality of the government in Kabul is an increasing source of strength for the insurgents.
(19) The country is virtually bankrupt ; Yanukovych stole billions from his own treasury, merely the latest in a long line of venal Ukrainian politicians who have looted the state.
(20) For local leaders, blaming al-Qaida both deflects blame from their own inefficiency and venality as well as potentially unlocking considerable financial, diplomatic and security assistance from the west.