emption
/ˈɛm(p)ʃn/Now chiefly Law
noun
The action or an act of purchasing something. Also: the right to make a purchase. Frequently in right of (sole) emption and similar phrases.
- Often opposed to vendition..
Origin
Late Middle English (in an earlier sense). From classical Latin emptiōn-, emptiō act of buying, purchasing, thing bought, purchase, deed of purchase from empt-, past participial stem of emere to buy (from the same Indo-European base as Old Church Slavonic imati to seize, collect, Lithuanian imti to take) + -iō.
- putchock
- putchuck
- putchuk
- put down
- put-down
- put down (or enter) one's (or someone's) name
- put down roots
- puteal
- puter
- put flesh on (the bones of) something
- put foot
- puthery
- puthry
- putid
- put ideas into someone's head
- put in
- put into action
- Putin, Vladimir
- put it (or oneself) about
- put it there
- put lipstick on a pig
- putlock
- putlog
- putlog hole
- put money (or put one's money) on