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purchasing

verbnounattested in dialogue

An act or process of making a purchase.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of purchasepresent participle and gerund of purchase

noun

  1. 1

    An act or process of making a purchase.

    As our exports and imports are now nearly in balance, it is assumed that such bargaining, if agreed to, would induce the debtor nations to greatly increase their purchasings from us […]

  2. 2

    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.

  3. 3

    A part of an organization that manages such processes

Forms

plural
purchasings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).