purchases

Synonyms

shopping acquisition buying purchasing foothold snap up toehold

Antonyms

sales

Phrases with the word

big purchases financial interest in awarding of purchases government purchases electronic purchases basket for carrying purchases basket used for carrying purchases

Examples

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. Martin Luther King Jr.

Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid. Warren Buffett

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. Basil Bunting

You get more irrationality within the family and in consumer behavior than you get, say, in the behavior of firms in their purchases. Ronald Coase

Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001. Bill Delahunt

It is the export surplus and the budget deficit which enable the capitalists to make profits over and above their own purchases of goods and services. The connection between 'external' profits and imperialism is obvious. Michal Kalecki