The word 'purchase' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it whenever you consider buying something, or have just bought something. For example: I have recently made a purchase of a new laptop.
No purchase is necessary.
In addition, the Committee intends to purchase a further $600 billion of longer-term Treasury securities by the end of the second quarter of 2011, a pace of about $75 billion per month.
One example is the Advanced Market Commitment tool, where donors pledge to purchase developing country disease-focused vaccines or medicines, giving companies a commercial buyer and thus a reason to risk their R&D investment and product development.
Osborne, incidentally, has learned both sides of the lesson: with Help to Buy, he will create a small number of homeowners who have him to thank for their purchase.
"If member states are free to purchase any power plant with long-term subsidies, then there is no longer a role for companies to judge investments".
What Apple CEO Tim Cook really meant "When you make a purchase, we make a little bit of money.
It could well make sense not to accept a lump sum contribution to the purchase of the property but to accept a regular contribution to living expenses instead.
From endless parties and family gatherings you feel obligated to attend, to the rich foods you regrettably indulge in, and the expensive presents you feel compelled to purchase but can't afford, it's a time of year engineered for consumption.
His is a planet where an aubergine satin coat is a useful purchase.
The purchase that English film-makers have secured in Hollywood and America since the mid-1990s is altogether more secure, even if the movies aren't necessarily better.
By providing customers the opportunity to access this information via their smartphone or iPad, they are able to make more informed purchase decisions, with the added convenience of buying there and then.
