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How to pronounce “purchase”
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Pronunciation guide for purchase
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of purchase with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Buying Foreclosures
How can we purchase those homes at great prices.
- Definition summary
- The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce purchase
Buying Foreclosures

How can we purchase those homes at great prices.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “purchase”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
- That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
- That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
- (obsolete) The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.)
- A price paid for a house or estate, etc. equal to the amount of the rent or income during the stated number of years.
- (uncountable, also figuratively) Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan.
- The apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained and (in nautical terminology) the ratio of such a device, like a pulley, or block and tackle.
- (climbing, uncountable) The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.
- (law, dated) Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.
- [Verb]
- To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.
- To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
- To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
- To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
- To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; to raise or move by mechanical means.
- To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.
- To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.
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