Word Finder - purchased

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To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.

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to purchase land, to purchase a house

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To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.

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To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.

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to purchase favor with flattery

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To expiate by a fine or forfeit.

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To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; to raise or move by mechanical means.

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to purchase a cannon

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To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.

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To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.

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Many aristocratic refugees' portable treasures purchased their safe passage and comfortable exile during the revolution

What if she purchased the land?

The two had gradually fallen in love, married, scraped together funds, and together with Fred O'Connor, purchased a hundred-year-old Colorado Victorian home.

Cade escorted her to town and purchased everything on the list - plus a few more items.

Quinn was thrilled with the property and immediately purchased a second vehicle.

They discussed their options—snowshoeing and cross country skiing—but decided to try out the ice skates that they had purchased for one another for Christmas.

More than likely some of the things on her list would have to be purchased elsewhere.

He'd settled in quite well and even purchased a car.

I've purchased a home on wheels for my journeys.

However, they needed more supplies—additional batteries, a second flashlight, and marking chalk—all to be purchased at the variety store, which didn't open until eight o'clock.

I purchased it because it reminds me of my beloved Venice.

Dean had purchased a small tent and sleeping bag for the Iowa trip, both items light enough to be hauled on his bike.

With the supplies put away, she set up the fan she had purchased, and turned it on low.

Successful feuds with the bishops of Strassburg and Basel further augmented his wealth and his reputation; rights over various tracts of land were purchased from abbots and others; and he was also the possessor of large estates in the regions now known as Switzerland and Alsace.

I daresay if you have purchased anything on Amazon, you have almost certainly, at some point, purchased an additional item Amazon suggested.

It took five trips by the time the auction was finished and the last of the purchased junk was dumped at Bird Song.

More than once someone had purchased frozen colostrum cubes from her to feed a newborn calf.

Climbing into the car he purchased for her, she headed out with the new bank account he had given her to do some guilt free shopping.

Another item she purchased was a catalog with instructions on cake decorating.

In addition to the animals we have purchased, there is native wildlife.

Two of the lots were immediately purchased by Captain Ephraim Williams (1715-1755), who was at the time commander of Fort Massachusetts in the vicinity; several other lots were bought by soldiers under him; and in 1 753 the proprietors organized a township government.

The two cables to Holland and one of the cables to Germany were already the property of Great Britain, and the German Union Company's cable to Germany was purchased by the German government.

The negus next marched against Menelek, king of Shoa, whose neutrality Italy had purchased with 5000 Remington.

It was purchased for the nation in 1892.

Room which can for these kinds purchased a mustang.

A voice scrambler was recommended and purchased.

The pretty young girl materialized, hair wet and smiling, dressed in a new bathrobe Betsy had purchased.

It wasn't designed to absorb perspiration and probably cost twice the price of a David Dean suit, at least the last time he'd purchased one.

He held up his recently purchased room key as the two ice climbers waved good bye.

It was the first words spoken to him by the sharp-tongued woman since the prior Tuesday evening when she'd first purchased the letters.

The clothing Martha brought with her was made up of a rag-tag collection of cast-offs that made most garage sale clothes look like they'd been purchased in a boutique.

The collection was made up of Shipton's newly purchased, barely used, ice climbing gear, ropes, ice axes, pitons and various garments.

Of course, she was spending it on things for him – going to the store for him in the car he purchased...

Along with the other items, she purchased a phone holster that clipped to her waistband.

She purchased a pregnancy test kit at the store.

This spawn may be obtained from old pastures, or decayed mushroom beds, and is purchased from nurserymen in the form of bricks charged with the mycelium, and technically known as mushroom spawn.

In 725 Luidprand purchased and removed to Pavia the body of St Augustine of Hippo from Cagliari, whither it had been brought in the 6th century by the exiled bishop of Hippo.

The rights of the Six Nations to all this territory were purchased at Albany, New York, by the Susquehanna Company in 1754, but the work of colonization was delayed for a time by the Seven Years' War.

Joachim Descartes, his father, having purchased a commission as counsellor in the parlement of Rennes, introduced the family into that demi-noblesse of the robe which, between the bourgeoisie and the high nobility, maintained a lofty rank in French society.

In 1 3 42 it was purchased by the count of Wurttemberg, whose descendants afterwards acquired the title of duke.

This fell into the hands of the Northern Pacific railway, but was purchased by the promoters of the Canadian Northern railway.

He purchased the allegiance of the stryeltsi, or musketeers, and then, summoning the boyars of the council, earnestly represented to them that Theodore, scarce able to live, was surely unable to reign, and urged the substitution of little Peter.

However, when ravaging the country near Alnwick, William was taken prisoner in July 1174, and after a short captivity at Richmond was carried to Normandy, where he soon purchased his release by assenting in December 1174 to the treaty of Falaise.

In 1849 it was purchased by the town for £53,000, and is devoted to various public uses, containing a museum, assembly-rooms and picture-galleries.

He inherited Flanders and Artois, purchased the county of Namur (1427) and compelled his cousin Jacqueline, the heiress of Holland, Zeeland, Hainault and Friesland, to surrender her possessions to him, 1428.

Penang was purchased from Kedah in 1786, and Singapore from the then sultan of Johor in 1819.

His fine collections of manuscripts and coins was purchased by the British Museum.

The plaintiff could swear to his loss by brigands, as to goods claimed, the price paid for a slave purchased abroad or the sum due to him.

Thus on the 31st of March 1889 the undertaking of the Submarine Telegraph Company was purchased by the governments concerned.

The offices of the Submarine Company in London, Dover, Ramsgate, East Dean and Jersey were purchased by the Post Office, as well as the cable ship; and the staff, 370 in number, was taken over by the government.

The popes had been successful; but they hac purchased their bloody victory at a great cost.