purchase

1. 1.

   obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction

   “The family purchased a new car”

   “The conglomerate acquired a new company”

   “She buys for the big department store”

   Synonymsbuy

   Broaderget

   Narrowerbuy backtakegetsubscribetake overpick uptake outimpulse-buy

   commerce

Other forms of purchase

plural

purchases·

past tense

purchased·

present participle

purchasing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about purchase

What does purchase mean?

purchase means "the acquisition of something for payment". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in purchase?

purchase has 2 syllables: pur-chase. The stress falls on "pur". In IPA it is /ˈpɝtʃəs/.

What is another word for purchase?

Close synonyms include leverage, buy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is purchase a common word?

purchase is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with purchase?

1 word rhymes with purchase. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.