PURCHASING

To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.

Example: "To purchase land, to purchase a house"

To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.

To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.

Example: "To purchase favor with flattery"

To expiate by a fine or forfeit.

To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; to raise or move by mechanical means.

Example: "To purchase a cannon"

To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.

To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.

Example: "Many aristocratic refugees' portable treasures purchased their safe passage and comfortable exile during the revolution"