procurement
the act of procuring, or obtaining or getting by effort, care, or the use of special means: The organ procurement procedure is very complicated.
the act of obtaining equipment, materials, or supplies: The secretary of defense argued in favor of increasing the budget for procurement.
Origin of procurement
1Other words from procurement
- non·pro·cure·ment, noun
- self-pro·cure·ment, noun
Words Nearby procurement
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How to use procurement in a sentence
Barry Parkin is chief sustainability and procurement officer at Mars.
How we’re ending deforestation in Mars’ palm oil supply chain | jakemeth | October 7, 2020 | Fortune“We have cleaned up our act,” said Barry Parkin, chief procurement and sustainability officer at Mars.
‘We’re weeding out the bad actors’: Mars says its M&Ms no longer contribute to deforestation | Bernhard Warner | October 6, 2020 | FortuneYet, it could have been much larger had Kenya not pulled out of the project back in 2015 over alleged procurement irregularities in the awarding of software contracts.
Three East African countries are merging their stock markets to boost local investment | Yomi Kazeem | September 24, 2020 | Quartz“If the business is hit hard then there will be logical cuts to the budget and with that also likely a shift in scope with an underlying need for savings,” said a marketing procurement director at a pharmaceutical company who asked not to be named.
‘It’s more transformational’: For the third time in five years, advertisers will launch a mediapalooza of account reviews | Seb Joseph | September 2, 2020 | DigidayWe also don’t know which police departments have facial recognition technology, because it’s common for police to obscure their procurement process.
There is a crisis of face recognition and policing in the US | Tate Ryan-Mosley | August 14, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
procurement budgets for weapon systems and operational-cost accounts are separated by a near-unbreachable wall.
America’s 60 Year-Old Nuclear Bomber Might Finally Get a New Engine | Bill Sweetman | October 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI mean, it shouldn't be sloppy work; it shouldn't be bad procurement process.
Weak oversight, inadequate contractors and flawed procurement procedures are potential trouble spots, he said in an interview.
Even the Most Powerful Man in the World Is at the Mercy of the IT Guy | Jill Lawrence | March 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTJunk leaves no room for family, jobs, or relationships other than those organized around the procurement and enjoyment of junk.
American Dreams, 1953: ‘Junky’ by William S. Burroughs | Nathaniel Rich | June 27, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAt Pentagon procurement prices, the cost of switching the stationery alone would be astronomical.
Accessibility to such chemicals and procurement of such chemicals usually lead to a search.
Difficulties of the usual kind arose as to the procurement of a suitable site.
The English Utilitarians, Volume I. | Leslie StephenThe gentlemen that remained in prisons were, by the procurement of the Queen-Dowager, set at liberty in the month of July 1550.
By her consent and procurement, the preaching stools in the Kirk of Leith were broken, and idolatry was re-erected there.
From this I was reft by the tyranny of France, by procurement of the bishops, as ye all know well enough.
British Dictionary definitions for procurement
/ (prəˈkjʊəmənt) /
the act or an instance of procuring
commerce
the act of buying
(as modifier): procurement cost; procurement budget
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