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purchase

[pur-chuhs] / ˈpɜr tʃəs /
NOUN
possession obtained with money
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK




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The Coop Community Fund had helped fund the purchase of the maternity recliner chair, they added.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

You could purchase a hybrid life insurance and long-term-care policy for around $100,000 to $200,000, leaving you the funds to cover at-home care if you needed it down the road.

From MarketWatch Aug. 3, 2026

For his "PC & Chill" service, Brousse does not buy parts to pre-build machines -- as it is too expensive -- but he requires clients to purchase their own that he assembles.

From Barron's Aug. 2, 2026

As part of the agreement, Anthropic said it would purchase more than $100 billion of Amazon’s cloud services.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

I knew that was the list of items he wanted to purchase while he was in China.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Tech companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to meet AI computing needs and issuing billions of dollars of debt to help make those purchases.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

Meanwhile, the BOJ continues quantitative easing at a pace of ¥2.5 trillion in asset purchases every month.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

On occasion, they’ve even had to share that unwelcome news with friends who sponsored the plants’ purchases.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

School-district purchases of MacBooks not only help Apple drive sales in the near term, but they also introduce young people to the company’s products at an early age.

From MarketWatch Aug. 2, 2026

There are receipts for big and small purchases, lease agreements, tax documents, warranties, and instruction manuals.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

Investors purchased the site, once home to the industrial juggernaut Bethlehem Steel, starting in 2014 for redevelopment and renamed it Tradepoint Atlantic.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

Family Nursing and Home Care said it had purchased 10 hospital-grade breast pumps and single-use pump kits.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

The Clooneys purchased the sprawling $8.3 million farmhouse in France in 2021.

From MarketWatch Aug. 3, 2026

In Tokyo, Japan's Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama also confirmed the joint intervention, saying the ministry on Friday "purchased the Japanese yen in coordination with the US Department of the Treasury."

From Barron's Aug. 2, 2026

She purchased the dress, and as soon as we got home, I mustered all my courage and dialed Evan's phone number.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

The RatingDog general manufacturing purchasing managers index fell to 50.9 in last month, down from 51.7 in June, according to a statement released Monday.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

The official manufacturing purchasing managers index dived to 49.2 this month from June’s 50.3, according to data released Friday by the National Bureau of Statistics.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

She posited that the value of a currency should reflect its purchasing power and the best way to assess this was to use one “perfect universal commodity” — the Big Mac.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 2026

Even though Social Security’s cost-of-living adjustments are meant to protect purchasing power, “they’re calibrated to the wrong basket of goods for older Americans,” said Ronnie Cox, investment director at Human Interest, a financial advisory service.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

She remained so until they were done purchasing their tickets at the ticket window and had walked outside to the platform to wait for their train.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood




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