Purchasing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PURCHASING in dictionary:

VERB:
• acquire (something) by paying for it; buy
• obtain or achieve with effort or suffering
• haul up (a rope, cable, or anchor) by means of a pulley or lever.
NOUN:
• the act of buying
• the action of buying something
• a thing that has been bought
• the annual rent or return from land
• firm contact or grip
• a pulley or similar device for moving heavy objects.
• the acquisition of property by one's personal action rather than by inheritance.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to acquire by the payment of money

Words related to PURCHASING

purchase15 purchased17 purchases16 purchasings19

Words that contain PURCHASING

purchasings19 repurchasing20 prepurchasing23

How to use PURCHASING in a sentence

• The planter, therefore, must feel it his interest to desist from purchasing, if possible.
• He thought then of procuring a place beyond the limits of the United States on our northern boundary, by purchasing the Indian lands with the consent of Great Britain.
• He concluded that Evelyn must be purchasing her beauty in job lots.
• Expressing himself desirous of purchasing some stock, he inquired the names of the principal owners of the stock.
• We import great quantities of lace from this country, yet I imagine we might, by attention, be enabled to supply other countries, instead of purchasing abroad ourselves.
• It still pays a pound, but the purchasing power of the pound has diminished.
• Some of the largest slaveholders in the country, instead of purchasing plantations and working their slaves themselves, hire them out to others.
• Finding premises, purchasing machinery and recruiting the staff.
• The fall of prices in such a general way as to amount to what is known as rise in purchasing power of gold is, I might almost say, universally admitted.
• In purchasing animals much caution is required in that part of the country, as even men who pose as gentlemen will try to take advantage of the situation.
• Thereupon he went to New-York with the object of purchasing the adjacent lands.
• After purchasing the caravans, the Kurds stripped all the Armenians, men and women, of their clothes, so that they remained entirely naked.
• England and the United States were offered treaties on the basis of first purchasing the good will of ministers for Foreign Affairs or Directors.
• Rodd in the agency of purchasing for the British Museum.
• We are purchasing this fact at the expense of arming five hundred thousand men and spending a thousand millions of dollars.
• The high interest at such times is but the reflection of the high premium on present purchasing power.
• This fact should lead to great care on the part of the housewife, both in purchasing and in using utensils for cooking purposes.
• In a community dominated by business interests, both labor power and purchasing power must be free to respond to demand and supply.
• It has been maturing ever since, and it was a marvelous brandy at the purchasing.
• She was trying to save money by purchasing invisible items.
• Afterwards, however, I conceived the idea of purchasing at once the entire family.
• A distinguished gentleman of the Civil War told me that Abraham Lincoln proposed to avoid our civil conflict by purchasing the slaves of the South and setting them free.
• Remembering the ruse which the friendly guide at Rotterdam had taught me, I began by purchasing a platform ticket.
• Or, it may be deemed necessary to provide means for extinguishing fires, by purchasing fire-engines and organizing fire companies.
• All labor, property, and commodities will advance in nominal value, but their purchasing power in other commodities will not increase.

Similar words containing PURCHAS without suffix ing

purchase15 purchased17 purchaser16 purchases16 purchasers17 repurchase17 prepurchase20 purchasable20 purchasings19 repurchased19 repurchases18 unpurchased19 prepurchased22 prepurchases21 repurchasing20 prepurchasing23 unpurchasable22 purchasability26 unpurchaseable23

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