How to Use procurement in a Sentence

procurement

noun
  • That delayed the start of the procurement process, Martone said.
    Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The threat from Iran is driving procurement from the Emirates.
    Ellen Nakashima, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Ivy Mitchell, one of HPM’s procurement leaders on the project, said that the goal is to pair up contractors large and small to work in teams on the projects.
    al, 30 June 2022
  • The way the money works is each product has costs built in, from shipping to procurement to printing.
    Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Both sued the state, alleging that the DHCS was not following its own procurement rules.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Shouldn’t one of them be the kind of person who kept track of the procurement and deployment of such things, the tools that smoothed over life’s little discomforts?
    Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • These costs were far less than NASA would have paid as part of a traditional procurement process.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Walmart, a company ruled by a zeal for low prices, opened a procurement center in the boomtown of Shenzhen.
    Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • And that's in part thanks to Este's procurement of a fake I.D. claiming her baby sis was actually 29.
    Sam Reed, Glamour, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Duke said the rate increase is needed to cover its cost of procurement and delivery.
    Randy Tucker, The Enquirer, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Bamboo takes only five years to mature, so procurement is not hard.
    Tazeen Qureshy, Quartz, 4 May 2023
  • The five-year plan estimates a total of $26 billion for F-35 procurement.
    Anthony Capaccio, Bloomberg.com, 28 Mar. 2022
  • But for decades, it’s been managed by a back-office function tucked into procurement or HR.
    Kevin Akeroyd, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • Danielle Thompson, the city’s procurement director, said Inspire Dallas was the city’s second choice to oversee the project.
    Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • As the main contractor for the F-35, Lockheed is in charge of the military’s biggest procurement program.
    Larry Light, Fortune, 14 July 2022
  • They might be embedded in trade agreements, procurement rules, or within the codes of conduct of investors.
    Christy Hoffman, Fortune, 29 May 2023
  • But at the heart of the procurement networks are human agents, who are expensive and time-consuming to develop.
    Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Dec. 2022
  • States also engaged in a bidding war for the procurement of critical supplies in spring 2020.
    Wendy E. Parmet, Scientific American, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Matthew Perry’s death probe ties people to ketamine procurement, but charges still unclear, sources say.
    Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
  • Conducting two separate procurements means more time and more money, when the city has neither to spare.
    Carlo Scissura, New York Daily News, 10 May 2024
  • Some organ procurement agencies avoid this by owning their own planes.
    Malena Carollo and Ben Tanen, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • That could inform Russia’s tank procurement decisions in the mid- to long-term, which have focused on producing the interim T-90M tank rather than the T-14.
    Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2023
  • UMass has managed to save more than $100 million through procurement strategies to prepare for the looming hurdles, Meehan said.
    Alison Kuznitz, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
  • Wagner is reaching out around the world to supply itself and the U.S. is trying to stop it by restricting its procurement lifelines.
    Courtney Kube, NBC News, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Two-thirds of the order was reserved for servers equipped with domestic processors, procurement records show.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 Sep. 2024
  • That raised some questions over the procurement process by one resident and Councilmember Jamie Aldama.
    Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2024
  • In total, 33 aircraft will be cut from an expected procurement of 94.
    Craig Hooper, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Raytheon should reap easy gains from procurement dollars directed toward weapons that have played a prominent role in the defense of Ukraine, such as Javelin and Stinger missiles.
    Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 26 July 2022
  • In Israel’s New York consulate, weapons procurement officers occupy two floors, processing hundreds of sales each year.
    Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Congress also needs to fund multiyear procurement for key munitions.
    Seth G. Jones, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2024

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