Purchase
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Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descentor inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement. Blackstone.Purchase criminal, robbery. [Obs.] Spenser.-- Purchase money, the money paid, or contracted to be paid, foranything bought. Berkeley.-- Worth, or At, [so many] years' purchase, a phrase by which thevalue or cost of a thing is expressed in the length of time requiredfor the income to amount to the purchasing price; as, he bought theestate at a twenty years' purchase. To say one's life is not worth aday's purchase in the same as saying one will not live a day, or isin imminent peril.
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- Verb: To purchase is to buy something.
- Adjective: Describes something that is worth buying
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Bristol uk. to recieve something. to own.
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to purchase something is to take something without paying for it. this is also know as stealing.
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the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever
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