Sales vs Purchase - What's the difference?
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As verbs the difference between sales and purchase is that sales is while purchase is to pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire. As a noun purchase is (obsolete) the act or process of seeking and obtaining something (eg property, etc).
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sales English
Noun
( en-plural noun)
The activities involved in selling goods or services.
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The amount or value of goods and services sold.
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Usage notes
* Often used attributively.
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purchase English
Noun
(obsolete) The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.)
* Beaumont and Fletcher
- I'll get meat to have thee, / Or lose my life in the purchase .
An individual item one has purchased.
The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
- They offer a free hamburger with the purchase of a drink.
That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
- He was pleased with his latest purchase .
(uncountable) Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan.
- It is hard to get purchase on a nail without a pry bar or hammer.
The apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained and in nautical terminology the ratio of such a device, like a pulley, or block and tackle.
(rock climbing, uncountable) The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.
(legal, dated) Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.
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Derived terms
* purchase order
* repurchase
Verb
( purchas)
To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
* Spenser
- that loves the thing he cannot purchase
* Shakespeare
- Your accent is something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling.
* Shakespeare
- His faults hereditary / Rather than purchased .
To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.
- to purchase''' land'', ''to '''purchase a house
To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
- to purchase favor with flattery
* Shakespeare
- One poor retiring minute / Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends.
To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
* Shakespeare
- Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses.
To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase' upon, or apply a ' purchase to.
- to purchase a cannon
To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.
* Ld. Berners
- Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage.
To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.
- ''Many aristocratic refugees' portable treasures purchased their safe passage and comfortable exile during the revolution
Synonyms
* (buy) procure
Derived terms
* purchable
* purchasing agent
* purchasing power
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