| 单词 | purchase |
| 释义 | purchase (once / 89 pages) 1vn 2n When you purchase a pair of shoes, you buy them. If you want to gain purchase, or favor, with new friends, you might tell them about your recent purchase of chocolate, and offer to share. Purchase can refer to the act of buying or the thing you bought. In 1803, the United States paid France approximately $15,000,000 for 800,000 acres of land which was called Louisiana, in a transaction known as the Louisiana Purchase. In this transaction, the purchase nearly doubled the size of the U.S. –– the territory purchased comprises about 23 percent of current US land. WORD FAMILYpurchase: purchasable, purchased, purchaser, purchases, purchasing, repurchase+/purchaser: purchasers/purchasing: purchasings/repurchase: repurchased, repurchases, repurchasing USAGE EXAMPLESFor instance, that bill eliminated the tax penalties, tax credits and cost-sharing subsidies central to the ACA’s individual mandate to purchase health insurance. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Wealthy businessmen and officials were purchasing elaborate carvings as luxurious gifts or, in some cases, bribes. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Among owners who purchased their most recent gun from a friend or acquaintance, 77% did so without a background check. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1v obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction The family purchased a new car Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper buy buy be worth or be capable of buying sell exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent sellbe sold at a certain price or in a certain way buy back, repurchase buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away takebuy, select getpurchase subscribe, subscribe to, takereceive or obtain regularly buy out, buy up, take overtake over ownership of; of corporations and companies pick upbuy casually or spontaneously buy food, take outpurchase prepared food to be eaten at home impulse-buybuy on impulse without proper reflection acquire, get come into the possession of something concrete or abstract 2n something acquired by purchase Hypo|Hyper stock buyback a corporation's purchase of its own outstanding stock; increases earnings/share so stock price rises (which can discourage a takeover attempt) bargain, buy, stealan advantageous purchase songa very small sum travel bargaina bargain rate for travellers on commercial routes (usually air routes) acquisition something acquired 3n the acquisition of something for payment 2they closed the purchase with a handshake Hypo|Hyper buyback, redemption, repurchase the act of purchasing back something previously sold buying, purchasingthe act of buying shoppingsearching for or buying goods or services catalog buying, mail-order buyingbuying goods to be shipped through the mail viatication, viaticuspurchasing insurance policies for cash from terminally ill policy holders acquisition the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something 1n the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever Syn|Hyper leverage mechanical phenomenon a physical phenomenon associated with the equilibrium or motion of objects 2n a means of exerting influence or gaining advantage he could get no purchase on the situation Hyper influence the effect of one thing (or person) on another |
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