purchase

Example Sentences

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Berkshire will purchase the equity interest from Tokio Marine—some 48 million shares—directly from the Japanese company, Tokio Marine said in a press release earlier Monday.

From Barron's

Under the new measures, private motorists in Slovenia will be restricted to a maximum purchase of 50 litres of fuel per day.

From BBC

She had resigned from government nearly two years earlier after her ministry purchased a government building at an elevated price, but had denied wrongdoing and never been indicted.

From The Wall Street Journal

For most of U.S. history, trading into and out of the market required the simultaneous purchase or sale of hundreds of individual stocks, a time-consuming and expensive process.

From MarketWatch

“I didn’t know you could laugh at the monarchy, at religion, at the army, at the war,” Idle said, adding that he immediately purchased the sketch group’s record and learned all their bits.

From Los Angeles Times