Purchasing

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Purchase \Pur"chase\ (?; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Purchased};
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Purchasing}.] [OE. purchasen, porchacen, OF.
     porchacier, purchacier, to pursue, to seek eagerly, F.
     pourchasser; OF. pour, por, pur, for (L. pro) + chacier to
     pursue, to chase. See {Chase}.]
     1. To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain,


        obtain, or acquire. --Chaucer.
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              That loves the thing he can not purchase. --Spenser.
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              Your accent is Something finer than you could
              purchase in so removed a dwelling.    --Shak.
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              His faults . . . hereditary
              Rather than purchased.                --Shak.
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     2. To obtain by paying money or its equivalent; to buy for a
        price; as, to purchase land, or a house.
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              The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of
              Heth.                                 --Gen. xxv.
                                                    10.
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     3. To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or
        sacrifice, etc.; as, to purchase favor with flattery.
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              One poor retiring minute . . .
              Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends.
                                                    --Shak.
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              A world who would not purchase with a bruise?
                                                    --Milton.
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     4. To expiate by a fine or forfeit. [Obs.]
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              Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses.
                                                    --Shak.
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     5. (Law)
        (a) To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance.
            --Blackstone.
        (b) To buy for a price.
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     6. 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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  purchasing
       n : the act of buying; "buying and selling fill their days";
           "shrewd purchasing requires considerable knowledge" [syn:
            {buying}]