purchase
verb (used with object)
to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
purchaser
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a word derived from
purchase.
Example Sentences
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That said, the largest stablecoin issuer, Tether, was an even larger purchaser of gold in 2025, the ECB said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026
“The proposed purchaser has not provided materials sufficient to close the gap between the city’s stated requirements and the proposed purchaser’s current development plan,” lawyers for the city wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
The prospective purchaser said eBay spent $2.4 billion on sales and marketing in the 2025 fiscal year while only adding one million net active buyers.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
Estate Agents Knight Frank - who marketed the property - said they did not, as a matter of policy, comment on the identity of a purchaser.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026
The average purchaser is completely bewildered by the array of available insecticides, fungicides, and weed killers, and has no way of knowing which are the deadly ones, which reasonably safe.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
