procurement
IPA: proʊkjˈʊrmʌnt
noun
- (uncountable) The purchasing department of a company.
- (countable) The act of procuring or obtaining; obtainment; attainment.
- Efficient contrivance; management; agency.
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Examples of "procurement" in Sentences
- How much influence do the bureaucrats have in procurement dicisions.
- • Matthew Jackson on the New Start blog on why procurement is the new regeneration
- Start by firing most of the wankers in procurement, and I mean firing as in out on the range.
- 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.
- This proposed procurement is a continuation of an existing contractual agreement for the developed prototype NASA Student Ambassadors Virtual Community (NSAVC) web site. ...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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