Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Definitions

purchase

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




Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

The timing of the purchase also endorses an earnings recovery in 2H, the analyst says.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 21, 2026

Paramount would then be poised to quickly finalize its purchase of Warner Bros.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 21, 2026

A club statement announcing the purchase from Admiral Taverns said it hoped to "help protect the historic pub" by "incorporating the club, the Racecourse Ground and The Turf under a single ownership".

From BBC Sep. 21, 2026

Rather than buy Bitcoin directly, people are paying a premium to purchase Strategy’s securities—securities whose value comes only from the company’s Bitcoin holdings.

From Slate Sep. 20, 2026

But Valley and Seven were able to find purchase and avoid being thrown in.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

Introduced on Sept. 8, Muse specializes in executing multistep tasks such as finding data across various accounts, filling out web forms, and negotiating and making online purchases.

From MarketWatch Sep. 21, 2026

Indeed, Saylor’s purchases were thought to be the primary force behind Bitcoin’s modest rise in price in the weeks leading up to the conference.

From Slate Sep. 20, 2026

On trade, there is "room for progress on tariffs, agricultural purchases and selected export controls", Yue Su of The Economist Intelligence Unit told AFP.

From Barron's Sep. 17, 2026

Visa, Mastercard and American Express have each announced their own tools and standards for AI platforms, merchants and others to support AI purchases.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

For the second half of the experiment, Dijksterhuis went to the furniture store IKEA, where people were making much more complicated and expensive purchases.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

The disputed move came when she purchased assets from the GRATs in exchange for interest-bearing promissory notes, which she was required to repay.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 21, 2026

Spielberg, 79, and his wife, Kate Capshaw, 72, purchased the property in 1999 through their corporate entity, Texas Tart, for $5.75 million.

From MarketWatch Sep. 21, 2026

"You go out of our shop and people think you have purchased something, but in fact you've just used our baby bank," she said.

From BBC Sep. 21, 2026

The men purchased their Reese’s at Publix but used prices from Walmart, Target and Hershey’s online store to support their claim, according to Reuters.

From Salon Sep. 19, 2026

They purchased some new pants, shirts, underwear, socks, and shoes, leaving their dirty and sandy clothes behind in their dressing rooms.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

Varun Shetty, OpenAI’s vice president of media partnerships, testified in the lawsuit that he wasn’t aware of OpenAI’s purchasing books at scale and scanning them for training purposes, according to the filing.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

They also were required to seek permission from the US before purchasing luxury goods, including jewellery, alcohol and cars.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

Ms. Acton is highlighting a plan to use the state’s purchasing leverage to lower the cost of medications.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

While it can strengthen the competitiveness of Japanese exporters, "the downside -- declining purchasing power weighing on consumption and investment -- is not sufficiently understood", warned Nakao.

From Barron's Sep. 16, 2026

A good many of the British purchasing men were crippled, but they wore their uniforms just the same.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck




Vocabulary lists containing purchase


Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Join 14,000,000 vocabulary learners

Start learning new words today on VocabTrainer.
You'll remember them forever.

Start training