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EMPTION

Definition: EMPTION

EMPTION

Noun

1. The act of buying.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Emption \Emp"tion\, noun. [Latin expression emptio, from emere to buy.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: EMPTION

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Purchase

Noun: purchase, emption; buying, purchasing, shopping; preemption, refusal.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Expressions: EMPTION

Expression using "EMPTION": pre emption. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "EMPTION": pre-emption, pre-emption.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: EMPTION

Language Translations for "EMPTION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

zëvendësim (commutation, displacement, exchange, metathesis, pre emption, replacement, substitute, substitution), zënie në dorë para të tjerëve (pre emption). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حق الشفعة (pre emption, refusal), ‏سبق في الشراء (pre emption), ‏الشفعة (pre emption). (various references)

   

French

  

préemption (pre emption), droit de préemption (pre emption). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

προαγορά (pre emption, preemptor), δικαίωμα προτιμήσεωσ (pre emption). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

elõvételi jog (option, pre emption), elõvásárlás (pre emption), megelõzés (pre emption, prevention). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

emptionay

   

Portuguese

  

obter por preempção (pre emption). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

preempţiune (pre emption). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

satınalmada öncelik hakkı (pre emption), şufa hakkı (pre emption), önce satınalma hakkı (pre emption). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

захоплення (admiration, applause, capture, catch, delight, dementia, ecstasy, encroachment, enthusiasm, grab, gust, hold, interest, mania, occupation, pre emption, rapture), переважне право придбання (pre emption). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: EMPTION

Derivations

Words ending with "EMPTION": exemption, preemption, redemption. (additional references)

Words containing "EMPTION": exemptions, preemptions, redemptioner, redemptioners, redemptions. (additional references)


Misspellings

"EMPTION" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amphion, ampton, demption, egptian, emition, exmption, mption. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "EMPTION"

Words rhyming with "EMPTION" (pronounced 'Emp"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation, Acetification, Achromatization, Acidification, Acquisition, Actualization, Actuation, Acuation, Acuition, Acumination, Acupuncturation, Adaptation, Adaption, Addiction, Addition, Adduction, Ademption, Adeption, Adequation, Adfiliation, Adhibition, Adhortation, Adipoceration, Adjection, Adjudication, Adjunction, Adjuration, Adlegation, Adlocution, Admensuration, Administration, Admiration, Admixtion, Admonition, Admortization, Adnation, Adoption, Adoration, Adornation, Adosculation, Adrogation, Adsignification, Adulation, Adulteration, Adumbration, Adunation, Adustion, Advocation, Advolution, Aerification, AEstivation, Affectation, Affection, Affiliation, Affirmation, Afflation, Affliction, Afforestation, Affriction, Aggeneration, Aggeration, Agglomeration, Agglutination, Aggrandization, Aggravation, Aggregation, Agitation, Aglutition, Agnation, Agnition, Agnomination, Agricolation, Alation, Albication, Albification, Alcoholization, Alienation, Alimentation, Alkalization, Allectation, Allegation, Allegorization, Alleviation, Alligation, Alliteration, Allocation, Allocution, Alteration, Altercation, Alutation, Amalgamation, Ambulation, Ambustion, Amelioration, Americanization, Amolition, Amortization, Amotion, Amplexation, Ampliation, Amplification, Amputation, Anaesthetization, Analyzation, Anathematization, Anatomization, Angariation, Anglicization, Angulation, Angustation, Anhelation, Animalization, Animation, Annexation, Annihilation, Annomination, Annotation, Annulation, Annumeration, Annunciation, Anteposition, Antiattrition, Anticipation, Antifriction, Antilibration, Antiquation, Antivaccination, Antivivisection, Antrustion, Apertion, Apocopation, Apostemation, Apparition, Appellation, Appendication, Apperception, Appetition, Application, Apportion, Apposition, Apprecation, Appreciation, Approbation, Appropinquation, Appropriation, Approximation, Aprication, Aration, Arbitration, Arborization, Arctation, Arcuation, Arefaction, Arenation, Areolation, Argentation, Argumentation, Argutation, Arietation, Ariolation, Aromatization, Arrentation, Arreption, Arrestation, Arrogation, Arterialization, Articulation, Ascription, Asexualization, Aspection, Asperation, Asphyxiation, Aspiration, Asportation, Assassination, Assastion, Assecuration, Assecution, Assentation, assertion, Asseveration, Assibilation, Assignation, Assimulation, Association, Assuefaction, Assumption, Astipulation, Astriction, -ation, Atmolyzation, Atomization, Attemperation, Attention, Attenuation, Atterration, Attestation, Attrectation, Attribution, Attrition, Aucupation, Audition, Augmentation, Auguration, Aurigation, Auscultation, Authorization, Autofecundation, Auto-infection, Auto-inoculation, Auto-intoxication, Autosuggestion, Autotoxication, Averruncation, Aversation, Aviation, Avocation, Avolation, Backwardation, Ballotation, Balneation, Balsamation, Bannition, Baptization, Bastion, Beatification, Benediction, Benefaction, Bifurcation, Bilection, Biliation, Bilocation, Bipartition, Bisection, Bituminization, Blandation, Blatteration, Boation, Bolection, Bombilation, Bombination, Botheration, Brutalization, By-election, Cachinnation, Calamistration, Calcification, Calcination, Calcitration, Calculation, Calefaction, Caligation, Callisection, Calorification, Calumniation, Cameration, Canalization, Cancellation, Canceration, Canonization, Cantation, Cantillation, Cantion, Capillation, Capitation, Capitulation, Caprification, Caption, Carbonatation, Carbonization, Carbunculation, Carnation, Carnification, Caseation, Cassation, Castellation, Castigation, Castrametation, Castration, Catechisation, Catenation, Causation, Cauterization, Cavillation, Celebration, Cementation, Cenation, Centesimation, Centralization, Cephalization, Cerebration, Certification, Cessation, Characterization, Chatteration, Chitinization, Chlorination, Chondrification, Chrismation, Christianization, Chylifaction, Chylification, Chymification, Cibation, Cicatrization, Cicuration, Cinefaction, Cineration, Circination, Circuition, Circulation, Circumcursation, Circumdenudation, Circumduction, Circumflection, Circumgestation, Circumgyration, Circumlocution, Circumnavigation, Circumnutation, Circumposition, Circumrotation, Circumscription, Circumspection, Circumvallation, Circumvection, Circumvention, Circumvolation, Circumvolution, Citation, Citrination, Clamation, Clarification, Classification, Claudication, Coacervation, Coaction, Coadaptation, Coadunation, Coadunition, Coagmentation, Coagulation, Coalition, Coaptation, Coarctation, Coarticulation, Coaxation, Coction, Codification, Coeducation, Coemption. (additional references)

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Anagrams: EMPTION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pimento.

Words within the letters "e-i-m-n-o-p-t"

-1 letter: impone, optime, pitmen, pointe, potmen.

-2 letters: inept, monie, monte, netop, opine, pinot, pinto, piton, point, tempi, tempo.

-3 letters: emit, into, item, meno, mien, mine, mint, mite, mope, mote, nite, nome, nope, note, omen, omit, open, pein, pent, peon, pine, pint, pion, poem, poet, pome, pone, temp, time, tine, tome, tone, tope, topi.

-4 letters: eon, imp, ion, men, met, mon, mop, mot, net, nim, nip, nit, nom, not, one, ope, opt, pen, pet, pie, pin, pit, poi, pom, pot, ten, tie, tin, tip, toe, tom, ton, top.

-5 letters: em, en, et, in, it, me, mi, mo, ne, no, oe, om, on, op, pe, pi, ti, to.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-m-n-o-p-t"
 

+1 letter: impotent, nepotism, orpiment, pentomic, piedmont, pimentos, pimiento, pivotmen, pointmen, ptomaine.

 

+2 letters: coempting, competing, exemption, importune, impotence, impotency, impotents, nepotisms, orpiments, pantomime, piedmonts, pimientos, prominent, protamine, ptomaines, simpleton.

 

+3 letters: completing, completion, compliment, embonpoint, exemptions, idempotent, importance, importuned, importuner, importunes, impotences, impotently, incomplete, mentorship, mispointed, omnipotent, pantomimed, pantomimes, peritoneum, permeation, phonematic, pitchwomen, portamenti, preemption, premoisten, protamines, redemption, resumption, simpletons, temptation, toponymies, trampoline.

 

+4 letters: aminopterin, amylopectin, appointment, bicomponent, competition, complecting, completions, compliments, computernik, consumptive, despoilment, disportment, emancipator, embonpoints, entomophily, epitomising, epitomizing, hemoprotein, homeporting, idempotents, impersonate, impetration, implementor, importances, importunate, importunely, importuners, impotencies, impoundment, imprecation, impregnator, improvement, improvident, incompetent, kleptomania, mentorships, metanephroi, misanthrope, mucoprotein, nonemphatic, omnipotence, omnipotents, omnipresent, patrimonies, peritoneums, permeations, permutation, phantomlike, phonemicist, pneumonitis, predominant, predominate, preemptions, premoistens, premonition, premonitory, premunition, prenominate, preromantic, presumption, prominently, recomputing, redemptions, reimporting, resumptions, taphonomies, temporising, temporizing, temptations, trampoliner, trampolines.

 

+5 letters: aminopterins, amylopectins, antinepotism, appointments, companionate, compellation, compensating, compensation, compensative, competencies, competitions, complexation, complimented, componential, computerniks, consumptives, contemporize, contemptible, contemptibly, despoilments, disportments, emancipation, emancipators, empoisonment, enantiomorph, epithalamion, hemoproteins, imperfection, impersonated, impersonates, impersonator, impetiginous, impetrations, implementors, impoliteness, importancies, impoundments, imprecations, impregnation, impregnators, imprisonment, improvements, incompatible, incompetence, incompetency, incompetents, incompletely, incomputable, intercompany, intercompare, kleptomaniac, kleptomanias, metropolitan, mifepristone, minicomputer, misanthropes, miscaptioned, misreporting, monophyletic, mucoproteins, multipronged, nympholeptic, omnipotences, omnipotently, onomatopoeia, onomatopoeic, operationism, outcompeting, overtrumping, permutations, phentolamine, phonemicists, pigmentation, pinealectomy, polycentrism, postfeminist, precomputing, predominated, predominates, preformation, premigration, premoistened, premonitions, premunitions, prenominated, prenominates, presumptions, primogenitor, promontories, pseudonymity, reassumption, redemptioner, reimposition, streptomycin, trampoliners, unimportance.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: EMPTION


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 4D 50 54 49 4F 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01001101 01010000 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#77 &#80 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 004D 0050 0054 0049 004F 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39475054434948

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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