Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of bringing about, or causing to be effected.
- n. The act of procuring or obtaining; obtainment.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable The purchasing department of a company.
- n. countable The act of procuring or obtaining; obtainment; attainment.
- n. Efficient contrivance; management; agency.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of procuring or obtaining; obtainment; attainment.
- n. Efficient contrivance; management; agency.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of getting possession of something
Examples
“King concluded this round of questions by declaring that the title procurement specialist "sounds raunchy.”
“We wouldn't blame you for taking this view; people's eyes tend to glaze over whenever the word "procurement" is used.”
The Huffington Post: Vijaya Ramachandran: G20 Endorses Hedging by the World Food Programme
“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.”
The Guardian: Liam Fox backs plan to cut swath through armed forces' top ranks
“• Matthew Jackson on the New Start blog on why procurement is the new regeneration”
“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
“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.”
“How much influence do the bureaucrats have in procurement dicisions.”
Cheeseburger Gothic » Anyone been following the build up to next falklands war?
“Start by firing most of the wankers in procurement, and I mean firing as in out on the range.”
“This proposed procurement is a continuation of an existing contractual agreement for the developed prototype NASA Student Ambassadors Virtual Community (NSAVC) web site. ...”
“Also, doublecheck the resumes of everybody who works in procurement (lots of possibilities there).”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘procurement’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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BUDG - general terms
Budgetese - not a sexy topic but a very comprehensive list of words and collocations used in EU circles. Budgeting experts please comment and expand.
heading, across-the-board ..., emergency reserve, frontload, mopping-up, performance reserve, positive margin, negative margin, public finances, structural operat..., administrative ex..., management of EU ... and 657 more...
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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CONT - general terms
additionality, audit trail, accounting standards, auditing standards, general audit obj..., a posteriori audit, a priori audit, above board, acceptable error ..., access rights, accountability, accountable entities and 1283 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2057 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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Quacksalvers et al. Nostrum
Bring forth the cathartic illumination on malignant,maniacal,medical,menage a trios and more egotists stymie
culpability, piousfraud, capacitous, rhabdomyolysis, scapula, idiosyncrasy, quiescent, malignant, nefarious, sociological, sociopath, pathogen and 204 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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SAT TEST 8 WORDS
waning, encroaching, modicum, discrepancy, surfeit, phlegmatic, conciliatory, vigilant, penurious, jaded, miffed, veiled and 24 more...
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More Words
vestigal, grousing, duplicitous, inflections, incrementally, hybrid, abbrogated, minarettes, procurement, incensed, insensed, moratorium and 41 more...
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Searched
furtive, cachet, procurement, pernicious, ebb, amiability, dubious, myriad, enigma
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