procurement

From Old French procurement, from procurer.

• IPA^(key): /pɹəˈkjʊə.mənt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈkjʊəɹ.mənt/, /pɹoʊˈkjʊəɹ.mənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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procurement (countable and uncountable, plural procurements)

1. (uncountable) The purchasing department of a company.
2. (countable) The act of procuring or obtaining; obtainment; attainment.

   He was responsible for the procurement of materials and supplies.

   I have a lot of experience in the procurement of construction materials and sub-contracts.

3. Efficient contrivance; management; agency.
   • 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, Act II, page 30:

     They think it done by her procurement.

   • 1878, The American Law Record, volume 6, page 679:

     The plaintiff, in her reply, further denies that she filed the petition, or that it was filed by her procurement.

• (act of procuring): acquirement, acquisition, procuration, obtainment

• chief procurement officer
• e-procurement
• indirect procurement
• procurement lead time

• procurment (less common)

procurer +‎ -ment.

procurement oblique singular, m (oblique plural procuremenz or procurementz, nominative singular procuremenz or procurementz, nominative plural procurement)

1. procurement; obtainment; obtention
2. persuasion
3. dishonest obtainment; obtainment by trickery

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (procurement)
• procurement on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub