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purchase
What does purchase mean?
purchase (noun): the acquisition of something for payment.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use purchase in a sentence?
- They closed the purchase with a handshake. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce purchase?
/ˈpɝtʃəs/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does purchase come from?
From Middle English purchasen, from Anglo-Norman purchacer (“seek to obtain”) from pur- (from Latin pro-) + chac(i)er (“to chase, pursue”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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