Purchase

['pɜ:tʃəs] or ['pɝtʃəs]

解释:

(noun.) the acquisition of something for payment; 'they closed the purchase with a handshake'.

(noun.) a means of exerting influence or gaining advantage; 'he could get no purchase on the situation'.

(noun.) something acquired by purchase.

奥德丽整理--From WordNet

解释:

(v. t.) To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.

(v. t.) To obtain by paying money or its equivalent; to buy for a price; as, to purchase land, or a house.

(v. t.) To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.; as, to purchase favor with flattery.

(v. t.) To expiate by a fine or forfeit.

(v. t.) To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance.

(v. t.) To buy for a price.

(v. t.) To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; as, to purchase a cannon.

(v. i.) To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert one's self.

(v. i.) To acquire wealth or property.

(v. t.) The act of seeking, getting, or obtaining anything.

(v. t.) The act of seeking and acquiring property.

(v. t.) The acquisition of title to, or properly in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.

(v. t.) That which is obtained, got, or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.

(v. t.) That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.

(v. t.) Any mechanical hold, or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle, capstan, and the like; also, the apparatus, tackle, or device by which the advantage is gained.

(v. t.) Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.

阿奇校对

同义词及近义词：

v. a. [1]. Buy, bargain for.[2]. [Rare.] Obtain, acquire, procure, get, gain.

n. Bargain.

校对:鲁珀特

解释:

v.t. to acquire by seeking: to obtain by paying: to obtain by labour danger &c.: (law) to get in any way other than by inheritance: to raise or move by mechanical means: (Shak.) to expiate by a fine or forfeit.—n. act of purchasing: that which is purchased or got for a price: value advantage worth: any mechanical power or advantage in raising or moving bodies.—adj. Pur′chasable that may be purchased: (hence of persons) venal corrupt.—n. Pur′chaser.—Purchase money the money paid or to be paid for anything; Purchase shears a very strong kind of shears with removable cutters and a strong spring at the back; Purchase system the method by which before 1871 commissions in the British army could be bought.—(So many) years' purchase a price paid for a house an estate &c. equal to the amount of the rent or income during the stated number of years.

编辑:玛杰里