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Crossword-Solution: PURCHASE 8 letters, 23 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Word Word Type Definition
Purchase v. t. To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain,
obtain, or acquire.
Purchase v. t. To obtain by paying money or its equivalent; to buy
for a price; as, to purchase land, or a house.
Purchase v. t. To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or
sacrifice, etc.; as, to purchase favor with flattery.
Purchase v. t. To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
Purchase v. t. To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance.
Purchase v. t. To buy for a price.
Purchase 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.
Purchase v. i. To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to
exert one's self.
Purchase v. i. To acquire wealth or property.
Purchase v. t. The act of seeking, getting, or obtaining anything.
Purchase v. t. The act of seeking and acquiring property.
Purchase v. t. The acquisition of title to, or properly in, anything
for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
Purchase v. t. That which is obtained, got, or acquired, in any
manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
Purchase v. t. That which is obtained for a price in money or its
equivalent.
Purchase 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.
Purchase v. t. Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than
descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.

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PURCHASE anagram RUSHPACE

We have 23 clues for the answer “PURCHASE”

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how alaska was aquired from russia 1 answer
William H. Seward's $7,200,000 recommendation: 1867 1 answer
THING bought 1 answer
Raise by mechanical power 1 answer
Pay money for 1 answer
Intent of a commercial 1 answer
How Alaska was acquired from Russia. 1 answer
shop for 2 answers
You might get a charge out of it 4 answers
fulcrum 10 answers
BUYING ___ 16 answers
Leverage 16 answers
Lever 24 answers
buy 27 answers
Obtain 38 answers
acquiring 41 answers
borrow 43 answers
Ledger 51 answers
Acquisition. 53 answers
Pivot 56 answers
Pick up 63 answers
Gain 81 answers
Advan-tage 87 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PURCHASE (5)

Only once his pace he slackened, Only once he paused or halted, Paused to purchase heads of arrows Of the ancient Arrow-maker, In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley.
The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991
For never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have peirc’d so deep: Which would but lead me to a worse relapse And heavier fall: so should I purchase deare Short intermission bought with double smart.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Troy went on,— “I shall soon purchase my discharge, and then——” “But I wish you to hasten on this marriage.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
This triangular trade began in Europe with the purchase of guns, gunpowder, cheap cotton, and trinkets of all kinds.
The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008
Take the word ‘purchase’ for instance, which, in ordinary use, means to acquire by giving value, but applies in law to all legal modes of obtaining property except by inheritance or descent, and in this peculiar sense the word occurs five times in Shakespeare’s thirty-four plays, and only in one single instance in the fifty-four plays of Beaumont and Fletcher.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Quotes with PURCHASE (3)

Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them. He was not unusual in this. In order to maintain his cover as a typical second-hand book seller, he used every means short of actual physical violence to prevent customers from making a purchase. Unpleasant damp smells, glowering looks, erratic opening hours - he was incredibly good at it.
Terry Pratchett Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit quietly and listen to charges brought against my color with no chance of defense. We should all be dead. I thought I should like to see us all dead, one on top of the other. A pyramid of flesh with the whitefolks on the bottom, as the broad base, then the Indians with their silly tomahawks and teepees and wigwams and treaties, the Negroes with their mops and recipes…
Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.
Walt Whitman Song of Myself
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 6 times in crossword archives (1947–2022).