Meaning

• The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.

  "They offer a free hamburger with the purchase of a drink."

• That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.

• That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.

  "He was pleased with his latest purchase."

• The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.)

• A price paid for a house or estate, etc. equal to the amount of the rent or income during the stated number of years.

• Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan.

  "It is hard to get purchase on a nail without a pry bar or hammer."

• The apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained and in nautical terminology the ratio of such a device, like a pulley, or block and tackle.

• The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.

• Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.

Meaning

• To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.

  "to purchase land, to purchase a house"

• To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.

• To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.

  "to purchase favor with flattery"

• To expiate by a fine or forfeit.

• To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; to raise or move by mechanical means.

  "to purchase a cannon"

• To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.

• To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.

  "Many aristocratic refugees' portable treasures purchased their safe passage and comfortable exile during the revolution"