Purchase

1. To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance.
2. Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.
3. The acquisition of title to, or properly in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
4. To acquire wealth or property.
5. To obtain by paying money or its equivalent; to buy for a price; as, to purchase land, or a house.
6. Any mechanical hold, or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle, capstan, and the like; also, the apparatus, tackle, or device by which the advantage is gained.
7. To buy for a price.
8. To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.; as, to purchase favor with flattery.
9. The act of seeking and acquiring property.
10. That which is obtained, got, or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
11. To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
12. The act of seeking, getting, or obtaining anything.
13. 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.
14. To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
15. That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
16. To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert one's self.