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purchase
English
Etymology
From Middle English purchasen, from Anglo-Norman purchacer (“seek to obtain”) from pur- (from Latin pro-) + chac(i)er (“to chase, pursue”). Compare Old French porchacier (“to follow, to chase”), which has given French pourchasser (“to chase without relent”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p?t??s/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??t??s/
- Hyphenation: pur?chase
Noun
purchase (countable and uncountable, plural purchases)
- The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
- That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
- That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
- (obsolete) The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.)
- I'll […] get meat to save thee, / Or lose my life i’ th’ purchase.
- A price paid for a house or estate, etc. equal to the amount of the rent or income during the stated number of years.
- 1848, The Sessional Papers printed by order of the House of Lords
- Suppose a freehold house to be worth 20 years’ purchase […]
- 1848, The Sessional Papers printed by order of the House of Lords
- (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.
- Synonyms: contact, grip, hold
- 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.
- (rock climbing, uncountable) The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.
- Synonyms: foothold, support
- (law, dated) Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.
Derived terms
- purchase order
- repurchase
Translations
Verb
purchase (third-person singular simple present purchases, present participle purchasing, simple past and past participle purchased)
- 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.
- that loves the thing he cannot purchase
- To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
- to purchase favor with flattery
- 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.
- 1523–1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles
- Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage.
- 1523–1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles
- To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.
Synonyms
- (buy): procure
Derived terms
- purchasable
- purchasing agent
- purchasing power
Translations
Anagrams
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recall
English
Alternative forms
- recal (obsolete)
- (to call again): re-call
Etymology
From re- +? call, probably modelled on Latin revoc?re, French rappeler, English withcall.
Pronunciation
- Verb
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???k??l/
- (General American) enPR: r??kôl, r??kôl, IPA(key): /???k?l/, /?i?k?l/
- Rhymes: -??l
- Hyphenation: re?call
- Noun
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??i?k??l/
- (General American) enPR: ?r??kôl, r??kôl, r??kôl, IPA(key): /??i?k?l/, /?i?k?l/, /???k?l/
- Rhymes: -i?k??l, -??l
- Hyphenation: re?call
Verb
recall (third-person singular simple present recalls, present participle recalling, simple past and past participle recalled)
- (transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order). [from 16th c.]
- Synonyms: withcall; see also Thesaurus:recant
- (transitive) To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive, US politics) To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote.
- (transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive) To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive, intransitive) To call again, to call another time. [from 17th c.]
- (transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product). [from 20th c.]
Translations
Noun
recall (countable and uncountable, plural recalls)
- The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
- Request of the return of a faulty product.
- (chiefly US politics) The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters.
- (US politics) The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.
- Request of the return of a faulty product.
- Memory; the ability to remember.
- (information retrieval, machine learning) The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.
- Synonym: sensitivity
Translations
Further reading
- product recall on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- recall (memory) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- recall election on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- precision and recall on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- caller, cellar
Portuguese
Noun
recall m (plural recalls)
- recall (return of faulty products)
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