purchase

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

Act of buying

Nouns

1. purchase, buying, emption; purchasing power; bargain (see cheapness); installment buying or plan, time purchase plan, buying on time, deferred payment, layaway plan, revolving charge plan, hire-purchase (Brit.); acquisition, acquirement, procurement, expenditure, conspicuous consumption; payment; buyout; bribery, bribe, dealing. Informal, buy. See offer.

2. purchaser, buyer, procurer, emptor, vendee; shopper, marketer, patron, employer; client, customer, consumer; constituency; trafficker; clientry, clientele, patronage. Slang, rough trade. See business.

Verbs — purchase, buy, invest in, procure, acquire; shop, market, go shopping, bargain for; rent, hire (see borrowing); repurchase, redeem; buy in; pay (for), spend; make or complete a purchase; buy over or under the counter; buy out; be in the market for; keep in one's pay, bribe, buy off, suborn. Slang, cop.

Adjectives — purchased; purchasable, buyable, available, obtainable; bribable, venal, commercial.

Phrases — caveat emptor, let the buyer beware; the customer is always right; there are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers; I shop, therefore I am.

Quotations — He who findeth fault, meaneth to buy (Thomas Fuller).

Antonyms, see sale.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [The act of buying]

Syn. acquirement, procurement, getting, obtaining, shopping, installment plan, bargaining, marketing, investing; see also acquisition 1 , buying .

2. [Something bought]

Syn. property, possession, gain, booty, acquirement, investment; see also acquisition 2 , bargain 2 .

v.

Syn. obtain, acquire, buy up; see buy 1 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)

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n.

buy, acquisition, acquirement, procurement, bargain.

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v.

buy, pay for, acquire, obtain, invest in, procure, bargain for, order, pick up.

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) I verb To acquire in exchange for money or something of equal value: buy. See GET, MONEY. II noun Something bought or capable of being bought: buy. See GET, MONEY.