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purchasing

/pur-chuhs/US // ˈpɜr tʃəs //UK // (ˈpɜːtʃɪs) //

购买,采购,购货,购买物品

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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    pur·chased, pur·chas·ing.

    • : to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
    • : to acquire by effort, sacrifice, flattery, etc.
    • : to influence by a bribe.
    • : to be sufficient to buy: Twenty dollars purchases a subscription.
    • : Law. to acquire by means other than inheritance.
    • : to move, haul, or raise, especially by applying mechanical power.
    • : to get a leverage on; apply a lever, pulley, or other aid to.
    • : Obsolete. to procure, acquire, or obtain.
v.无主动词 verb
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    pur·chased, pur·chas·ing.

    • : to buy something.
n.名词 noun
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    • : acquisition by the payment of money or its equivalent; buying, or a single act of buying.
    • : something that is purchased or bought.
    • : something purchased, with respect to value in relation to price; buy: At three for a dollar they seemed like a good purchase.
    • : Law. the acquisition of land or other property by means other than inheritance.
    • : acquisition by means of effort, labor, etc.: the purchase of comfort at the price of freedom.
    • : a lever, pulley, or other device that provides mechanical advantage or power for moving or raising a heavy object.
    • : an effective hold or position for applying power in moving or raising a heavy object; leverage.
    • : any means of applying or increasing power, influence, etc.
    • : the annual return or rent from land.
    • : a firm grip or grasp, footing, etc., on something.
    • : Obsolete. booty.

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Examples

  • While comforters may seem relatively light, you should factor the extra weight into your blanket purchase.

  • Metro board member Michael Goldman suggested Thursday that Metro pause on the scheduled purchase of 100 buses and redeploy that money to Metro’s platform project.

  • On the style front, TikTok already ran a livestreamed video shopping pilot with Walmart that used influencers to drive purchases, demonstrating the potential in connecting video inspiration to consumer action in an even more timely fashion.

  • For now, companies have only our behavior — our likes, our clicks, our purchase histories — to build eerily accurate profiles of us.

  • For now, companies have only our behavior — our likes, our clicks, our purchase histories — to build eerily accurate profiles of us and estimate what we’ll do next.

  • They were able to purchase weapons and plot attacks on the island without much interference.

  • When my husband and I asked to see the report, we were told we could purchase the report for $30,000 from the defense.

  • Which is why in 1961, the distillery finally decided to purchase the estate and its adjoining home.

  • Whereas other brands purchase their barrels from big producers more or less off the rack, The Macallan starts in the forest.

  • Customers can purchase cold beer at full price or warm bottles of beer at retail prices to take home.

  • People have not only ceased to purchase those old-fashioned things called books, but even to read them!

  • From affluence he came to want, and in his old age a fund was raised sufficient to purchase him an annuity of £600 a year.

  • If this is not done, some person who afterward wished to purchase the land might object because the recorded title was defective.

  • So the courts abandoned the rule founded on the part payment of the purchase price.

  • Nor can he sell the property to himself, nor authorize any other person to bid and purchase for him either directly or indirectly.