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purchase (verb), purchases; purchased; purchasing
1. To buy something by using money or its equivalent: "Shawn discovered a valuable manuscript at the bookstore that sells old books and documents and purchased it for an insignificant amount of money."

"Jim and Irene were purchasing items to take with them on their camping trip."

2. Etymology: from Middle English purchasen, "to pursue, to chase eagerly"; from Old French purchacier, French chasser; pur-, "forth" + chacier, "to chase"; from Latin captare, "to strive, to seize"; from capere, (and captus), "to catch, to seize, to hold".
This entry is located in the following unit: cap-, cip-, capt-, cept-, ceive, -ceipt, -ceit, -cipient (page 11)