Tony purchased a number of toys for the children in the orphanage.
•Who did you purchase this gift for?
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
purchase — 01. Did you [purchase] anything of value while you were travelling in the U.S.? 02. The [purchase] price for digital cameras is expected to drop significantly over the next five years. 03. We stopped in the mall to show each other our [purchases] … Grammatical examples in English
purchase price — noun the price at which something is actually purchased • Hypernyms: ↑price, ↑terms, ↑damage * * * purchase price UK US noun [singular] formal the price that you have to pay for something Thesaurus: prices and costs … Useful english dictionary
Something Big — Infobox Film | name = Something Big caption = director = Andrew V. McLaglen producer = James Lee Barrett Andrew V. McLaglen writer = James Lee Barrett starring =Dean Martin Brian Keith Carol White Honor Blackman Ben Johnson music = Burt Bacharach … Wikipedia
purchase order — noun a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities IBM received an order for a hundred computers • Syn: ↑order • Derivationally related forms: ↑order (for:… … Useful english dictionary
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals — PETA redirects here. For other uses, see Peta (disambiguation). Founder(s) Ingrid Newkirk and Alex Pacheco … Wikipedia
Straw purchase — Under United States federal gun laws, a straw purchase is any purchase from a dealer holding a Federal Firearms License where the buyer conducting the transaction is not the actual purchaser , but is acting as a proxy for another person. Although … Wikipedia
Waiting for Godot — Infobox Play name = Waiting for Godot image size = 200px writer = Samuel Beckett characters = Estragon Vladimir Lucky Pozzo Boy date of premiere = January 5th, 1953 Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters wait for… … Wikipedia
Inubaka: Crazy for Dogs — Cover of 1st manga volume of Inubaka Crazy for Dogs published by Shueisha, featuring Suguri Miyauchi and her dog Lupin … Wikipedia
check out something — check out (something) to pay for something you are buying or to let someone record what you are borrowing. To complete your online purchase, check out by clicking on the icon below. Ty checked another three books out of the library this afternoon … New idioms dictionary
Heraclitus — Catherine Osborne No philosopher before Socrates can have had such a profound influence on so many generations of subsequent thinkers as Heraclitus. Nor can any thinker, probably in the whole history of philosophy, have inspired such a wide range … History of philosophy
save — save1 [ seıv ] verb *** ▸ 1 help someone/something avoid harm ▸ 2 avoid using something ▸ 3 help someone avoid doing something ▸ 4 keep something for future ▸ 5 in computing ▸ 6 stop point being scored ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) transitive to make it… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
