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purchase

[pur-chuhs] / ˈpɜr tʃəs /
NOUN
possession obtained with money
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK




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The most expensive purchase, she calculates, were the windows at £30,000, while one of the cheapest measures was making the whole house airtight, which cost £5,000.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

By agreeing to the arrangement, users were signed up for a scheme where they agreed to purchase a certain number of products over a specific amount of time at full price.

From Salon Aug. 21, 2026

It also said it is completing the purchase of drilling rigs for the new project, which would initially involve two blocks.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Fans who did not get a time slot to buy 2028 Olympics could still get opportunities to purchase tickets in 2027.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

Nigro gave or loaned him books, and Regina permitted him to purchase a book now and then, whenever she had some spare cash.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

The purchases are expected to provide support to the domestic bond market.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Columbia House drew further claims of bad business by allegedly refusing to acknowledge payments, discounting items so that users’ purchases fell just below the agreed-upon threshold and being a notoriously difficult subscription to terminate.

From Salon Aug. 21, 2026

The debt struggles of Evergrande and industry peers including Country Garden, Vanke and Kaisa have had a severe impact on consumer confidence, dissuading many would-be homebuyers from making purchases.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

The money behind AI hardware purchases is increasingly borrowed.

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

They’d spent a small fortune on in-app purchases: skins and maps in Minecraft, V-Bucks in Fortnite, unlimited lives and gems in a new multiplayer world-building game.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty

He has purchased the building as part of a group of locals, who estimate it will need £5m of investment as they continue to look for partnerships.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

Todd Boehly purchased a minority stake in the Lakers in 2021, but it’s unclear whether all his shares folded into business partner Walter’s majority stake.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

But the government rejects the criticism, arguing that it has invested in ground-based resources, which it says are more effective, and purchased helicopters for water-bombing operations, with deliveries of the aircraft under way.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

In interviews, she has been unsparing about what she sees as coming next in American media consolidation, warning that a CNN controlled by David Ellison — who purchased Paramount and CBS — would be “tragic.”

From Salon Aug. 20, 2026

Eventually, upon Lawson’s death, the score sheet was purchased by a collector, sold again, and for the last number of years it has rested with yet another collector.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

With first-come, first-serve purchasing, the ticketing platform will remain open continuously through the Games.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

U.S. economic data due Friday include the flash manufacturing and services purchasing managers’ indexes for August, released at 9:45 a.m.

From MarketWatch Aug. 21, 2026

But investor appetite in lending the US government money through buying bonds is "diminishing", Swanson warns, creating a "vicious" cycle, requiring the government to offer ever higher returns to keep investors purchasing its debt.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

In other words, AFT is advertising the purchasing power it hopes to mobilize against the company.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

One purchasing committee found a large department store which gave us wholesale rates on everything from underwear to baseball gloves.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey




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