purchased
- 1Simple past and past participle of purchase.
The company purchased three new delivery trucks for the holiday season.
All the supplies had been purchased before the budget was frozen.
Note
A regular -ed form, so one spelling serves as the simple past and as the participle after have or be. Shopping is only part of its reach. The participle also carries purchase's sense of gaining something at a cost other than money, as in a peace purchased with sacrifice. It can carry the mechanical sense too: a load purchased is one raised or moved by leverage.
Their freedom was purchased with years of hardship and danger.
The crew purchased the heavy anchor aboard with a windlass.
purchased is a form of purchase
purchase, verb: To obtain something by paying a price for it in money or its equivalent. Full entry
- Forms
- purchasepurchases he/she/itpurchasing -ing formpurchased past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- purchase → purchased: add -d
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