purchased

Verb

purchase (third-person singular simple present purchases, present participle purchasing, simple past and past participle purchased)

1. To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.
   • to purchase land, to purchase a house

   Synonyms:

   procure

2. To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
   • that loves the thing he cannot purchase1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “May. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC
3. To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
   • to purchase favor with flattery
4. To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
   • Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses.c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
5. 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.
   • to purchase a cannon
6. To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.
   • Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage.1523–1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles

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