nonpurchase

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adjective

Not involving a purchase

Scrabble 18

Meanings

adjectivenonpurchase (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot involving a purchase

    The avoidance of a nonpossessory, nonpurchase money security interest, on the other hand, is limited to those liens on types of property specified.

    2003, Pamela Webster, Practical Bankruptcy Law for Paralegals, →ISBN, page 172
nounnonpurchase (countable and uncountable, plural nonpurchases)

plural nonpurchases

  1. countableuncountableA failure to purchase something

    Feedback may take the form of attitude changes, purchases, or nonpurchases.

    2012, Louis Boone, David Kurtz, Contemporary Marketing, 2013 Update
    2 more examples

    Notice of nonpurchase could be given at any time between July 6, 1915, and May 3, 1916.

    1918, The Federal Reporter

    But a more extensive approach would be to go beyond product to consider the nonpurchase decision.

    2002, Thomas Princen, Confronting Consumption, →ISBN, page 28

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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