purchase

Example Sentences

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A weaker dollar reduces purchasing power for Americans - something overseas travellers know all too well.

From BBC

He added that papers at her home in Nigeria or kept by officials "would have demonstrated that where individuals provided her with accommodation in this country or paid for purchases... reimbursement was made from Nigeria".

From Barron's

The department issued a general license allowing transactions relating to "the lifting, exportation, reexportation, sale, resale, supply, storage, marketing, purchase, delivery, or transportation of Venezuelan-origin oil."

From Barron's

The “needed” column is how cheap the straddle needs to be in order to be a viable candidate for a straddle purchase.

From MarketWatch

Their product was purchased and had to be acceptable to every newspaper in the country—liberal and conservative, big city and small.

From The Wall Street Journal