Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of bringing about, or causing to be effected.
- noun The act of procuring or obtaining; obtainment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of procuring or obtaining; obtainment; attainment.
- noun Efficient contrivance; management; agency.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The
purchasing department of acompany . - noun countable The act of procuring or obtaining;
obtainment ; attainment. - noun Efficient
contrivance ;management ; agency.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of getting possession of something
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Examples
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King concluded this round of questions by declaring that the title procurement specialist "sounds raunchy."
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We wouldn't blame you for taking this view; people's eyes tend to glaze over whenever the word "procurement" is used.
Vijaya Ramachandran: G20 Endorses Hedging by the World Food Programme Vijaya Ramachandran 2011
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Start by firing most of the wankers in procurement, and I mean firing as in out on the range.
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• Matthew Jackson on the New Start blog on why procurement is the new regeneration
Society daily 26.10.2010 Patrick Butler 2010
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This proposed procurement is a continuation of an existing contractual agreement for the developed prototype NASA Student Ambassadors Virtual Community (NSAVC) web site. ...
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How much influence do the bureaucrats have in procurement dicisions.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Anyone been following the build up to next falklands war? 2010
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The chancellor, George Osborne, has yet to commit any new money, but the MoD is negotiating with Treasury officials and the Cabinet Office because it needs to take some long-term procurement decisions now.
Liam Fox backs plan to cut swath through armed forces' top ranks 2011
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But I heartily agree with your supposition on information technologies 'impact on efficiency, e.g. in procurement and logistics or gov't stats on the economy (a poll as it were), particularly in regard to Coase and organisational program size complexity.
Policy in a Fog, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The chancellor, George Osborne, has yet to commit any new money, but the MoD is negotiating with Treasury officials and the Cabinet Office because it needs to take some long-term procurement decisions now.
Liam Fox backs plan to cut swath through armed forces' top ranks 2011
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Like many of its European peers, RWE's gas business has been suffering heavy losses as oil-indexed long-term procurement prices far exceed selling prices in an oversupplied European wholesale market.
Nuclear Exit Damages RWE Jan Hromadko 2011
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