purchase : Idioms & Phrases

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Gun tackle purchase

  • (Naut.), a tackle composed of two single blocks and a fall. Totten.
Webster 1913

hire-purchase

  • noun installment plan
    never-never.
    • we bought a car on the never-never
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louisiana purchase

  • noun territory in the western United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million; extends from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada
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purchase agreement

  • noun a contract stating the terms of a purchase
    purchase agreement.
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purchase contract

  • noun a contract stating the terms of a purchase
    purchase agreement.
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Purchase criminal

  • robbery. Obs. Spenser.
Webster 1913

Purchase money

  • the money paid, or contracted to be paid, for anything bought. Berkeley.
Webster 1913

purchase order

  • noun a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities
    order.
    • IBM received an order for a hundred computers
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purchase price

  • noun the price at which something is actually purchased
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purchasing agent

  • noun an agent who purchases goods or services for another
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purchasing department

  • noun the division of a business that is responsible for purchases
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stock purchase plan

  • noun an organized plan for employees of a company to buy shares of its stock
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stock-purchase warrant

  • noun a type of security issued by a corporation (usually together with a bond or preferred stock) that gives the holder the right to purchase a certain amount of common stock at a stated price
    warrant; stock warrant.
    • as a sweetener they offered warrants along with the fixed-income securities
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To rig a purchase

  • to adapt apparatus so as to get a purchase for moving a weight, as with a lever, tackle, capstan, etc.
Webster 1913

Whip crane, ∨ Whip purchase

  • a simple form of crane having a small drum from which the load is suspended, turned by pulling on a rope wound around larger drum on the same axle.
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Worth, ∨ At, [so many] years' purchase

  • a phrase by which the value or cost of a thing is expressed in the length of time required for the income to amount to the purchasing price; as, he bought the estate at a twenty years' purchase. To say one's life is not worth a day's purchase in the same as saying one will not live a day, or is in imminent peril.
Webster 1913