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straw purchases

straw purchases is the plural of straw purchase.

Meaning of straw purchase

Noun

straw purchase (plural straw purchases)

  1. A purchase made secretly on behalf of someone else.
    • A husband, wife, boyfriend or girlfriend who buys a handgun on behalf of their significant other is carrying out a straw purchase.

Questions about straw purchases

What is straw purchases the plural of?
Straw purchases is the plural of straw purchase.

Words near straw purchases in the dictionary

  1. straw poll
  2. straw polls
  3. straw purchase
  4. straw purchaser
  5. straw purchasers
  6. straw purchases
  7. straw shoe
  8. straw shoes
  9. straw stem
  10. straw stems
  11. straw that stirs the drink

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Adapted from Wiktionary: straw purchases (page history and authors); straw purchase (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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