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Definition of purchase in English: purchaseverb ˈpəːtʃɪsˈpərtʃəs [with object]1Acquire (something) by paying for it; buy. 购买 Mr Gill spotted the manuscript at a local auction and purchased it for £1,500 吉尔先生在当地的拍卖会上见到了这一手稿，并花1，500英镑买了下来。 Example sentencesExamples - You can often pick up bargains in purchasing a car that someone brought in to this country on their own.
- Those in a position to purchase a tax-based property investment should do so before the end of the year so they can take the available relief into account on their latest tax return.
- Consumer sovereignty means that people can choose to purchase, or to obtain, whatever they want.
- Children are taught to budget the use of this money, £8 per week under age 16 in two instalments to purchase items from the local shop on their accompanied visits.
- I found this book incredibly inspiring and I promised myself that I would make an effort to purchase as much locally grown foodstuff as possible.
- Never before in Asia has the general public had the opportunity to bid at an auction where they can purchase brand new luxury villas in a project of this quality.
- You may have delayed our efforts to purchase our own sound system, and you have delayed our ultimate aim to sponsor a local children's charity.
- Added to his mortgage, he was forced to seek a loan from his credit union all in a desperate effort last year to purchase his children's much-needed schoolbooks.
- The number of investors purchasing residential property for letting has dropped back to historic levels.
- The firm is able to build cheaply by purchasing land that has no prospect of alternative development, on deferred completion terms.
- The offset programmes may involve the provision of investments, transfer of know-how or commitments to purchase local commodities.
- New modes for the vehicle are obtained as power-ups, purchased in your factories.
- Just visit your local outdoor shop and purchase a good set of waterproofs that blend in with the countryside.
- Do you accept that some interest assigned to that part of the loan which went to purchasing the investment property is deductible?
- Analysts say with the prospect of RMB appreciation, more investors are choosing to purchase the currency hoping to benefit from the revaluation.
- It now costs less to purchase an investment property since the budget, with the reduction of stamp duty and the availability of better priced products in good locations.
- They look at what has been obtained and what is purchased by the trustee is taken for the benefit of the wards.
- She said offers had been received and they would like to see the property being purchased by locals.
- Since no one wants to purchase them the auction is handled a little different - the bidding proceeds as normal but the first player to drop out acquires the item.
- The school will be built on a new site in the village and the plans are subject to the council purchasing land and obtaining planning permission.
Synonyms buy, acquire, obtain, pick up, snap up, take, secure, procure, come by, pay for, shop for, invest in, put money into informal get hold of, get one's hands on, get one's mitts on, score - 1.1archaic Obtain or achieve with effort or suffering.
〈古〉（努力或艰难地）获得，得到 the victory was purchased by the death of Rhiwallon 这胜利是用瑞沃令的生命换来的。 Synonyms obtain, acquire, come by, carry off, come to have, get, receive, gain, earn, win, come into, come in for, take possession of, take receipt of, be given
2Nautical
Haul up (a rope, cable, or anchor) by means of a pulley or lever. 〔航海〕（用滑轮或杠杆）升起，举起（绳，索，锚）
noun ˈpəːtʃɪsˈpərtʃəs 1mass noun The action of buying something. （购）买 the large number of videos currently available for purchase 目前大量可供选购的录像机。 count noun she made her purchases carefully Example sentencesExamples - The object of the purchase was that the Block should be converted into residential flats which would then be sold on.
- Most of the population are very unlikely to be offered a vaccine. Given these limitations, the health department has chosen to make its block purchase of Tamiflu.
- The purchase by Indonesia of arms from China, for instance, would raise alarm.
- He was also charged with tendering a false cheque from First Citizens Bank for the purchase of a pirogue and a Yamaha engine valued at $65,000.
- However renovation work would use up all the council's funds and that upset 13 councillors from across the political spectrum who wanted to block the purchase.
- Some obligation is raw debt, used to leverage the purchase of machinery or more farmland.
- I'd already found a buyer for another block, and after completing the purchase, I put the other two on the market.
- From vending machine purchases to Morale, Welfare and Recreation tickets, any cash purchase aboard ship will require a Navy Cash Card.
- A typical investment decision problem underlies the purchase of the three pressing machines in 1922.
- The most intriguing purchase to date has been that of the Varyag.
- All customers are entitled to free upgrades and maintenance for a period of two years from original purchase.
- This lead to the purchase of another antique designed and built in the Knutson yard near New York City in 1963.
- Work began on the car's conversion in the spring of 2000, after the purchase of trucks and motors from the Seashore Trolley Museum.
- A repayment for her husband's outstanding debt for the purchase of Nordstern is still deducted each month from her welfare cheque.
- While the purchase was cleared by regulators, it led to such unfavorable press that Green decided to back down.
- Avid boaters, and history and antique buffs, the pair are elated by the purchase.
- A handheld computer owner should register the purchase with the manufacturer to obtain a warranty and technical support.
- De Beers has faced mounting pressure over its purchase of diamonds from these war-torn areas.
- The HMAS Leeuwin Trust Fund supports the purchase of the sword on a biennial basis.
- Dyke says the purchase of the HCVs represents a continuation of Cabot's long-time relationship with Scherping Systems.
- 1.1count noun A thing that has been bought.
所购物品 she stowed her purchases in the car 她把购买的物品装进车里。 Example sentencesExamples - By the time consumers carry their purchases home, the product will tend to be off-flavor.
- Home improvements, car purchases, holidays, computers, education and medical expenses are among the areas for loans most sought after by members.
- As you enter the home straight, you must be able to stow the purchases away within three minutes of entering and disposing of carrier bags where they will not be found.
- They had a light lunch on board the ship, after stowing their purchases.
- The owner had not advised the harbormaster of his new purchase.
- They wanted to try to get some action done on sweatshop labour and the products that the university purchases.
- When they'd completed their shopping, they put their purchases in his car, and then drove to the restaurant.
- A lot of citizens base their own purchases on what product has passed the rigorous demands of police work.
- As a consumer, it was your duty to have a million desires in order to fuel that commerce with your purchases.
- The next C&O stock car purchases didn't take place until the mid-1930s.
- Climbing aboard, they stow their purchases within the truck's cabin, where they will lie protected from wind and possible rain.
- This method of documenting the sale also applied in the second example of a cash purchase where the replacement car was new.
- ‘Unless the emission test and labeling are free of charge, customers will question them and probably cancel their car purchases,’ she said.
- Indeed, it appears that the less sleaze-inducing internet route for buying cars is picking up steam - with plenty of car purchases originating online.
- I want you to know about the concerns that I have about my $70,000 purchase.
- China's economic planners are hoping to unleash decades of pent-up consumer demand for houses, cars, and smaller purchases funded by bank loans.
- The Army has instituted numerous goals to increase the use of commercial purchases.
- Government purchases stimulate the production of the goods that the government buys.
- This channel is especially attractive for companies marketing big-ticket, infrequent purchases, like cars or a house, Fecko says.
- That helped nationwide car purchases rise 55 percent in August from a year earlier, according to the Oauto Web site, which compiles auto-industry data.
- 1.2Law The acquisition of property by one's personal action rather than by inheritance.
〔律〕（非继承性的）财产置得 Example sentencesExamples - The clause in issue (clause N of the agreement of purchase and sale) is set out above.
- Simply put, can the commission clause in the agreement of purchase and sale amend the commission rate stipulated in the listing agreement?
- The insurance clause in the agreement of purchase and sale between the parties states as follows.
- The Madam Justice dealt with an appeal in which the construction of an agreement of purchase and sale of real property was in issue.
- This case concerned a contract for the sale and purchase of a property in London, the title to which was registered.
Synonyms acquisition, investment, buy, order, deal, bargain, property, asset, possession, holding shopping, goods - 1.3archaic The annual rent or return from land.
〈古〉（地产的）年租，年收益 a lease valued at seven year's purchase
2mass noun Firm contact or grip. 牢固的接触；紧握，牢牢抓住 the horse's hooves fought for purchase on the slippery pavement 马用蹄子拼命在打滑的路面上稳住。 in singular an attempt to gain a purchase on the soft earth 贴住软地面的试图。 Example sentencesExamples - Not having experienced the desperation of oppression, we have little purchase on the extremism it might engender.
- The opinions of others have never had much purchase on him.
- The people who are meant to be our leaders no longer get any real purchase on the public mind.
- Town's best chance fell to Michael Duffy who met a left wing cross from Cormac O'Malley with a glancing header but he didn't get enough purchase on the ball and it flashed wide.
- The contention that we gain some purchase on the post-Cold War order by regarding it as a phase of peacemaking seems to depend on an assumption that it is the very act of peacemaking that issues in the subsequent order.
- We are as much in need of critical purchase on the medical imaging that creates our illusion of the real body we inhabit as we are of ways to rethink documentary photography or graphic design.
- They were also smoother, new growth, and it was harder for Zal to find purchase on the slippery, slightly wet surfaces.
- On this first attempt Pete couldn't grab anything with which to haul himself in and his other leg, not in the sling, was flailing around trying to get some purchase on the slippery slope.
- It took him a few more moments to figure out how to gain purchase on the surface with his feet, but as soon as he had that, he was off!
- She scrabbled in vain for purchase on the stone floor, which was smooth from the years of pedestrian traffic pounding the irregularities into powder.
- He flailed around, trying to gain purchase on anything he could.
- They skated around for a bit, mostly with him just trying to help her keep her precarious purchase on the ground.
- My Dad is a quiet man with the soul of a poet, and very little purchase on the world of things and possessions.
- As the liberal establishment moved left under radical pressure, conservatives gained purchase on the political center.
- It didn't come in his lifetime; a catalyst and a visionary, he seemed to be moving too fast to gain purchase on his value system.
- By being funny, outsiders can gain access to and purchase on a social mainstream from which they might be excluded.
- Maybe Hanson is taking aim at the American isolationist Right, but the argument he takes on has considerable purchase on the little Englanders the British Left have become morphed into recently.
- Such wider knowledge is firmer purchase on the worldly things and neighbors God has given us to honor and conserve.
- It anchors itself by gaining purchase on the pitted, rough limestone, and then stretches the upper half of its body into the air of the abyss.
- The bands in this second category distinguish themselves by gaining purchase on a sound so unique and texturally diverse that they lack a clear antecedent.
Synonyms grip, firm contact, attachment, hold, foothold, footing, toehold, fingerhold, anchorage, support, grasp resistance, friction, leverage, advantage - 2.1count noun A pulley or similar device for moving heavy objects.
（移动重物的）滑轮（或类似装置）
OriginMiddle English: from Old French pourchacier 'seek to obtain or bring about', the earliest sense also in English, which soon gave rise to the senses 'gain' (hence, in nautical use, the notion of ‘gaining’ one portion of rope after another) and 'buy'. Definition of purchase in US English: purchaseverbˈpərtʃəsˈpərCHəs [with object]1Acquire (something) by paying for it; buy. 购买 Mr. Gill spotted the manuscript at a local auction and purchased it for $1,500 吉尔先生在当地的拍卖会上见到了这一手稿，并花1，500英镑买了下来。 Example sentencesExamples - Just visit your local outdoor shop and purchase a good set of waterproofs that blend in with the countryside.
- Added to his mortgage, he was forced to seek a loan from his credit union all in a desperate effort last year to purchase his children's much-needed schoolbooks.
- Since no one wants to purchase them the auction is handled a little different - the bidding proceeds as normal but the first player to drop out acquires the item.
- I found this book incredibly inspiring and I promised myself that I would make an effort to purchase as much locally grown foodstuff as possible.
- She said offers had been received and they would like to see the property being purchased by locals.
- They look at what has been obtained and what is purchased by the trustee is taken for the benefit of the wards.
- Consumer sovereignty means that people can choose to purchase, or to obtain, whatever they want.
- The school will be built on a new site in the village and the plans are subject to the council purchasing land and obtaining planning permission.
- The firm is able to build cheaply by purchasing land that has no prospect of alternative development, on deferred completion terms.
- New modes for the vehicle are obtained as power-ups, purchased in your factories.
- You can often pick up bargains in purchasing a car that someone brought in to this country on their own.
- Do you accept that some interest assigned to that part of the loan which went to purchasing the investment property is deductible?
- Children are taught to budget the use of this money, £8 per week under age 16 in two instalments to purchase items from the local shop on their accompanied visits.
- It now costs less to purchase an investment property since the budget, with the reduction of stamp duty and the availability of better priced products in good locations.
- The offset programmes may involve the provision of investments, transfer of know-how or commitments to purchase local commodities.
- You may have delayed our efforts to purchase our own sound system, and you have delayed our ultimate aim to sponsor a local children's charity.
- Never before in Asia has the general public had the opportunity to bid at an auction where they can purchase brand new luxury villas in a project of this quality.
- Those in a position to purchase a tax-based property investment should do so before the end of the year so they can take the available relief into account on their latest tax return.
- The number of investors purchasing residential property for letting has dropped back to historic levels.
- Analysts say with the prospect of RMB appreciation, more investors are choosing to purchase the currency hoping to benefit from the revaluation.
Synonyms buy, acquire, obtain, pick up, snap up, take, secure, procure, come by, pay for, shop for, invest in, put money into - 1.1archaic Obtain or achieve with effort or suffering.
〈古〉（努力或艰难地）获得，得到 the victory was purchased by the death of Rhiwallon 这胜利是用瑞沃令的生命换来的。 Synonyms obtain, acquire, come by, carry off, come to have, get, receive, gain, earn, win, come into, come in for, take possession of, take receipt of, be given
2Nautical
Haul in (a rope or cable) or haul up (an anchor) by means of a pulley, lever, etc. 〔航海〕（用滑轮或杠杆）升起，举起（绳，索，锚）
nounˈpərtʃəsˈpərCHəs 1The action of buying something. （购）买 the large number of videos currently available for purchase 目前大量可供选购的录像机。 we carefully make our purchases after consulting each other 我们相互商量以后认真进行了采购。 Example sentencesExamples - A repayment for her husband's outstanding debt for the purchase of Nordstern is still deducted each month from her welfare cheque.
- Most of the population are very unlikely to be offered a vaccine. Given these limitations, the health department has chosen to make its block purchase of Tamiflu.
- Dyke says the purchase of the HCVs represents a continuation of Cabot's long-time relationship with Scherping Systems.
- He was also charged with tendering a false cheque from First Citizens Bank for the purchase of a pirogue and a Yamaha engine valued at $65,000.
- Avid boaters, and history and antique buffs, the pair are elated by the purchase.
- All customers are entitled to free upgrades and maintenance for a period of two years from original purchase.
- The most intriguing purchase to date has been that of the Varyag.
- The HMAS Leeuwin Trust Fund supports the purchase of the sword on a biennial basis.
- A handheld computer owner should register the purchase with the manufacturer to obtain a warranty and technical support.
- A typical investment decision problem underlies the purchase of the three pressing machines in 1922.
- This lead to the purchase of another antique designed and built in the Knutson yard near New York City in 1963.
- The purchase by Indonesia of arms from China, for instance, would raise alarm.
- However renovation work would use up all the council's funds and that upset 13 councillors from across the political spectrum who wanted to block the purchase.
- Work began on the car's conversion in the spring of 2000, after the purchase of trucks and motors from the Seashore Trolley Museum.
- Some obligation is raw debt, used to leverage the purchase of machinery or more farmland.
- From vending machine purchases to Morale, Welfare and Recreation tickets, any cash purchase aboard ship will require a Navy Cash Card.
- De Beers has faced mounting pressure over its purchase of diamonds from these war-torn areas.
- While the purchase was cleared by regulators, it led to such unfavorable press that Green decided to back down.
- I'd already found a buyer for another block, and after completing the purchase, I put the other two on the market.
- The object of the purchase was that the Block should be converted into residential flats which would then be sold on.
- 1.1 A thing that has been bought.
所购物品 she stowed her purchases in the car 她把购买的物品装进车里。 Example sentencesExamples - ‘Unless the emission test and labeling are free of charge, customers will question them and probably cancel their car purchases,’ she said.
- As you enter the home straight, you must be able to stow the purchases away within three minutes of entering and disposing of carrier bags where they will not be found.
- They had a light lunch on board the ship, after stowing their purchases.
- Climbing aboard, they stow their purchases within the truck's cabin, where they will lie protected from wind and possible rain.
- A lot of citizens base their own purchases on what product has passed the rigorous demands of police work.
- This channel is especially attractive for companies marketing big-ticket, infrequent purchases, like cars or a house, Fecko says.
- The Army has instituted numerous goals to increase the use of commercial purchases.
- Home improvements, car purchases, holidays, computers, education and medical expenses are among the areas for loans most sought after by members.
- Indeed, it appears that the less sleaze-inducing internet route for buying cars is picking up steam - with plenty of car purchases originating online.
- That helped nationwide car purchases rise 55 percent in August from a year earlier, according to the Oauto Web site, which compiles auto-industry data.
- The owner had not advised the harbormaster of his new purchase.
- China's economic planners are hoping to unleash decades of pent-up consumer demand for houses, cars, and smaller purchases funded by bank loans.
- As a consumer, it was your duty to have a million desires in order to fuel that commerce with your purchases.
- When they'd completed their shopping, they put their purchases in his car, and then drove to the restaurant.
- The next C&O stock car purchases didn't take place until the mid-1930s.
- Government purchases stimulate the production of the goods that the government buys.
- They wanted to try to get some action done on sweatshop labour and the products that the university purchases.
- By the time consumers carry their purchases home, the product will tend to be off-flavor.
- This method of documenting the sale also applied in the second example of a cash purchase where the replacement car was new.
- I want you to know about the concerns that I have about my $70,000 purchase.
- 1.2Law The acquisition of property by means other than inheritance.
〔律〕（非继承性的）财产置得 Example sentencesExamples - The Madam Justice dealt with an appeal in which the construction of an agreement of purchase and sale of real property was in issue.
- The insurance clause in the agreement of purchase and sale between the parties states as follows.
- This case concerned a contract for the sale and purchase of a property in London, the title to which was registered.
- The clause in issue (clause N of the agreement of purchase and sale) is set out above.
- Simply put, can the commission clause in the agreement of purchase and sale amend the commission rate stipulated in the listing agreement?
Synonyms acquisition, investment, buy, order, deal, bargain, property, asset, possession, holding - 1.3archaic The annual rent or return from land.
〈古〉（地产的）年租，年收益
2A hold or position on something for applying power advantageously, or the advantage gained by such application. the horse's hooves fought for purchase on the slippery pavement 马用蹄子拼命在打滑的路面上稳住。 in singular an attempt to gain a purchase on the soft earth 贴住软地面的试图。 Example sentencesExamples - The contention that we gain some purchase on the post-Cold War order by regarding it as a phase of peacemaking seems to depend on an assumption that it is the very act of peacemaking that issues in the subsequent order.
- Town's best chance fell to Michael Duffy who met a left wing cross from Cormac O'Malley with a glancing header but he didn't get enough purchase on the ball and it flashed wide.
- On this first attempt Pete couldn't grab anything with which to haul himself in and his other leg, not in the sling, was flailing around trying to get some purchase on the slippery slope.
- She scrabbled in vain for purchase on the stone floor, which was smooth from the years of pedestrian traffic pounding the irregularities into powder.
- By being funny, outsiders can gain access to and purchase on a social mainstream from which they might be excluded.
- He flailed around, trying to gain purchase on anything he could.
- My Dad is a quiet man with the soul of a poet, and very little purchase on the world of things and possessions.
- It anchors itself by gaining purchase on the pitted, rough limestone, and then stretches the upper half of its body into the air of the abyss.
- They skated around for a bit, mostly with him just trying to help her keep her precarious purchase on the ground.
- They were also smoother, new growth, and it was harder for Zal to find purchase on the slippery, slightly wet surfaces.
- We are as much in need of critical purchase on the medical imaging that creates our illusion of the real body we inhabit as we are of ways to rethink documentary photography or graphic design.
- Not having experienced the desperation of oppression, we have little purchase on the extremism it might engender.
- The people who are meant to be our leaders no longer get any real purchase on the public mind.
- It didn't come in his lifetime; a catalyst and a visionary, he seemed to be moving too fast to gain purchase on his value system.
- Maybe Hanson is taking aim at the American isolationist Right, but the argument he takes on has considerable purchase on the little Englanders the British Left have become morphed into recently.
- As the liberal establishment moved left under radical pressure, conservatives gained purchase on the political center.
- Such wider knowledge is firmer purchase on the worldly things and neighbors God has given us to honor and conserve.
- It took him a few more moments to figure out how to gain purchase on the surface with his feet, but as soon as he had that, he was off!
- The bands in this second category distinguish themselves by gaining purchase on a sound so unique and texturally diverse that they lack a clear antecedent.
- The opinions of others have never had much purchase on him.
Synonyms grip, firm contact, attachment, hold, foothold, footing, toehold, fingerhold, anchorage, support, grasp - 2.1 A block and tackle.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French pourchacier ‘seek to obtain or bring about’, the earliest sense also in English, which soon gave rise to the senses ‘gain’ (hence, in nautical use, the notion of ‘gaining’ one portion of rope after another) and ‘buy’. |