Usually means: Transactions acquiring goods or services.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word purchases:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. purchases: Merriam-Webster
  2. purchases: Collins English Dictionary
  3. purchases: Vocabulary.com
  4. Purchases, purchases: Wordnik
  5. purchases: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. purchases: Wiktionary
  7. purchases: Dictionary.com
  8. purchases: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Purchases: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. purchases: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. purchases: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. PURCHASES: Accounting Glossary
  3. purchases: Legal dictionary
  4. purchases: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. purchases: Encyclopedia

(Note: See purchase as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Purchase)

noun:  The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
noun:  That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
noun:  That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
noun:  (obsolete) The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.)
noun:  A price paid for a house or estate, etc. equal to the amount of the rent or income during the stated number of years.
noun:  (uncountable, also figuratively) Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan.
noun:  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.
noun:  (climbing, uncountable) The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.
noun:  (law, dated) Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.
verb:  To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.
verb:  To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
verb:  To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
verb:  To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
verb:  To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; to raise or move by mechanical means.
verb:  To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.
verb:  To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A hamlet in Harrison, New York.
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