purchasing
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Definitions ofpurchasing
- To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.
Example: "to purchase land, to purchase a house"
- To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
- To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
Example: "to purchase favor with flattery"
- To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
- 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.
Example: "to purchase a cannon"
- To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.
- To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.
Example: "Many aristocratic refugees' portable treasures purchased their safe passage and comfortable exile during the revolution"
- An act or process of making a purchase.
- A complex, organized process in large organizations for obtaining goods that may include identification of requirements, approvals, supplier management, negotiation, receipt of goods, and payment.
- A part of an organization that manages such processes
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