What does purchasing mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. buying, purchasingnoun

    the act of buying

    "buying and selling fill their days"; "shrewd purchasing requires considerable knowledge"

Wikipedia

  1. Purchasing

    Purchasing is the process a business or organization uses to acquire goods or services to accomplish its goals. Although there are several organizations that attempt to set standards in the purchasing process, processes can vary greatly between organizations. Purchasing is part of the wider procurement process, which typically also includes expediting, supplier quality, transportation, and logistics.

ChatGPT

  1. purchasing

    Purchasing refers to the process of buying goods or services for personal use, for business distribution, or for resale. This involves researching, selecting, negotiating, and procuring products or services from suppliers or vendors, and often includes activities such as quality assurance, supply chain management, and strategic sourcing.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Purchasing

    of Purchase

Wikidata

  1. Purchasing

    Purchasing refers to a business or organization attempting to acquiring goods or services to accomplish the goals of its enterprise. Though there are several organizations that attempt to set standards in the purchasing process, processes can vary greatly between organizations. Typically the word “purchasing” is not used interchangeably with the word “procurement”, since procurement typically includes Expediting, Supplier Quality, and Traffic and Logistics in addition to Purchasing.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. purchasing

    Any person purchasing from any soldier his arms, uniform, clothing, or any part thereof, may be punished by any civil court having cognizance of the same, by fine in any sum not exceeding $300, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year.—Act of March 16, 1802.

Editors Contribution

  1. purchasingverb

    Verb form of the word purchase.

    The purchasing manager ensure compliance with the quality management system and purchasing procedure.


    Submitted by MaryC on April 6, 2020  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of purchasing in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of purchasing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of purchasing in a Sentence

  1. Nabil Zaidi:

    Our analytics showed our target demographic purchasing and engaging more with products that showed minimal to no graphics or logos. Based on that information we launched our BASICS collection. It was a hit. In fact, our BASICS quickly became our highest selling [collection of] products.

  2. Sam Khater:

    Fixed mortgage rates have increased by more than two full percentage points since the beginning of the year, the combination of rising rates and high home prices is the likely driver of recent declines in existing home sales. However, in reality, many potential homebuyers are still interested in purchasing a home, keeping the market competitive but leveling off the last two years of red-hot activity.

  3. Executive Chairman Georg Chmiel:

    Purchasing real estate is not the first step in coming to this country. More important is to obtain legal residency, over the next two to five years, there could be a substantial impact on the property market as these individuals look to settle down and purchase, but for now, it is too early for that.

  4. United States:

    In the last few years, China has repeatedly tried to gain a strategic foothold in Greenland, by offering to buy a former United States military base there and through a financing scheme for airport construction. Purchasing it would keep it out of the hands of both the Chinese and the Russians. It is rich in national resources with untold economic potential and already extremely important to United States national security.

  5. Adam Leventhal:

    In addition to the health hazards of vaping nicotine, other forms of nicotine ingestion like swallowing can be deadly, the high concentration of nicotine in some e-liquids if swallowed or absorbed into the body through other means is toxic, especially for infants and toddlers, who may be the siblings of older children who might be purchasing e-liquids and not aware of such hazards.

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