Usually means: Exchange of money for goods.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. purchase: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. purchase, purchase: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. purchase: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. purchase: Collins English Dictionary
  5. purchase: Vocabulary.com
  6. Purchase, purchase: Wordnik
  7. purchase: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Purchase, purchase: Wiktionary
  9. purchase: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. purchase: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. purchase: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. purchase: Dictionary.com
  13. purchase (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. purchase: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Purchase (disambiguation), Purchase (horse), Purchase: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Purchase: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. purchase: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. purchase: Rhymezone
  19. purchase: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. purchase: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. purchase: Free Dictionary
  22. purchase: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. purchase: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. purchase: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. purchase: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Purchase: bizterms.net
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. purchase: Legal dictionary
  8. Purchase: Financial dictionary
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. purchase: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. purchase: Medical dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. purchase: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PURCHASE: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. purchase: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. purchase: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Purchase: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See purchasable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
noun:  That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
noun:  That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
noun:  (obsolete) The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.)
noun:  A price paid for a house or estate, etc. equal to the amount of the rent or income during the stated number of years.
noun:  (uncountable, also figuratively) Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan.
noun:  The apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained and (in nautical terminology) the ratio of such a device, like a pulley, or block and tackle.
noun:  (climbing, uncountable) The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.
noun:  (law, dated) Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.
verb:  To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.
verb:  To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
verb:  To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
verb:  To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
verb:  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.
verb:  To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.
verb:  To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A hamlet in Harrison, New York.

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