purchase
verb (used with object)
to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
purchases
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pluralof purchase.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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present tense formof purchase (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
purchaseverb (used with object)to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
Example Sentences
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And when inflation erodes spending power, those discretionary purchases slow, Samuelson noted.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026
About 14.5% of home purchases made in August were by smaller real-estate investors, which was up from 13.6% a year ago, according to Cotality, a real-estate data-analytics company.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026
The BOJ’s planned bond purchases on Wednesday could provide further support.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Plus, government equity purchases, AI-driven inflation and the perils of Treasury’s short-term borrowing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
They had purchases to make for Robbie’s journey.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
