pur·chase

(pûr′chĭs)

tr.v. pur·chased, pur·chas·ing, pur·chas·es

1. To obtain in exchange for money or its equivalent; buy.

2. To acquire by effort; earn: purchased the victory with the loss of many lives.

3. To pull or haul by means of a mechanical device, such as a winch.

a. The act or an instance of buying: the sudden purchase of a car.

b. Something bought: That hat was a wise purchase.

a. A hold or position that allows the application of power, as in moving something: got a purchase for her foot and climbed up.

b. A device, such as a pulley, used to obtain mechanical advantage.

c. A means or advantage that allows the increase of power or influence.

[Middle English purchasen, to pursue, purchase, from Old French purchacier : pur-, forth (from Latin prō-; see per in Indo-European roots) + chacier, to chase; see chase¹.]

pur′chas·er n.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

purchaser - a person who buys

buyer, emptor, vendee

customer, client - someone who pays for goods or services

customer agent - a foreign purchaser who buys goods outright for resale

home buyer - someone buying a house

orderer - someone who places an order to buy

purchaser

noun buyer, customer, consumer, vendee (Law) The broker will get 5% if he finds a purchaser.
dealer, retailer, merchant, seller, vendor, shopkeeper, salesperson, tradesman, salesman or saleswoman

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

purchaser

noun

One who buys goods or services:

buyer, client, customer, patron.

Translations

مُشْتَرٍ، شارٍ

kupující

køber

Käufer

comprador

ostaja

acheteur acquéreur

vásárlóvevő

kaupandi

acquirente compratore

kjøper

alıcı

买主

purchaser

[ˈpɜːtʃɪsəʳ] N → comprador(a) m/f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

purchaser

[ˈpɜː^rtʃɪsə^rr] n → acheteur/euse m/fpurchase tax n (British) → taxe f à l'achatpurchasing power n → pouvoir m d'achat

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

purchaser

n → Käufer(in) m(f)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

purchaser

[ˈpɜːtʃɪsəʳ] n → acquirente m/f, compratore/trice

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

purchase

(ˈpəːtʃəs) verb

to buy. I purchased a new house.

noun

1. anything that has been bought. She carried her purchases home in a bag.

2. the act of buying. The purchase of a car should never be a hasty matter.

ˈpurchaser noun

a buyer.

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THE PURCHASER of a black servant was persuaded that the color of his skin arose from dirt contracted through the neglect of his former masters.

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A POLITICAL Preferment, labelled with its price, was canvassing the State to find a purchaser. One day it offered itself to a Truly Good Man, who, after examining the label and finding the price was exactly twice as great as he was willing to pay, spurned the Political Preferment from his door.

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"No, not to ask that, but for a description of the purchaser's appearance."

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The title suggests all kinds of mysteries; a glance at the chapter-headings quickly confirms the suspicions already aroused, and the sub-title: "A Book for All and None", generally succeeds in dissipating the last doubts the prospective purchaser may entertain concerning his fitness for the book or its fitness for him.

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He did not want to commit this treachery, but luck threw the man in his way, and this saved him the necessity of going up-country to hunt up a purchaser, with the added risk of having to answer a lot of questions, whereas this planter was so pleased with Roxy that he asked next to none at all.

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Their chief trade consists in provisions, cows, sheep, goats, fowls, pepper, and gold, which is weighed out to the purchaser, and principally in salt, which is properly the money of this country.

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"One thing has come on top of another: her rags to buy, and now a purchaser has turned up for the Moscow estate and for the house.

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Kitty felt that in her, in her manner of life, she would find an example of what she was now so painfully seeking: interest in life, a dignity in life--apart from the worldly relations of girls with men, which so revolted Kitty, and appeared to her now as a shameful hawking about of goods in search of a purchaser. The more attentively Kitty watched her unknown friend, the more convinced she was this girl was the perfect creature she fancied her, and the more eagerly she wished to make her acquaintance.

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Our owner was a practical person and he perceived that this defect must be mended if he hoped to find a purchaser for the king.

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"Then the tradesman does not pay a part of it-- the purchaser pays all of it?"

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Cement sidewalks were also laid, so that all the purchaser had to do was to select his lot and architect and start building.

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And Barney entered into the hell of education that later won his purchaser more time than he could deliver over the best vaudeville circuits in Canada and the United States.

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