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purchase

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purchase
1. something that is purchased, esp an article bought with money
2. the act of buying
3. acquisition of an estate by any lawful means other than inheritance
4. a rough measure of the mechanical advantage achieved by a lever


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Meanwhile the count had arrived at his house; it had taken him six minutes to perform the distance, but these six minutes were sufficient to induce twenty young men who knew the price of the equipage they had been unable to purchase themselves, to put their horses in a gallop in order to see the rich foreigner who could afford to give 20,000 francs apiece for his horses.
That any bookseller should think it worth-while to purchase what he did not think it worth-while to publish seems extraordinary.
A MAN wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner that he should try out the animal before he bought him.
 
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