as in acquisition
the act of obtaining (something)
The museum is touting the procurement of several recently discovered artifacts.
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Recent Examples of procurement
The county selected PlaceWorks without a competitive bidding process, known as a sole-source procurement, because the firm is already leading the county’s general plan update, according to the staff report.
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Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 26 Mar. 2026
The convention center construction is using a design-build procurement process, Sharp said, where the city would create a technical review committee who issues requests for qualifications.
—Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
Either way, businesses will no longer need to buy expensive software from traditional vendors like Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Microsoft, or from the hundreds of smaller, niche firms offering legal tech, procurement systems, or financial planning software.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2026
Competing for a major Army contract The X3’s unveiling comes ahead of an important procurement decision.
—Munis Raza, Interesting Engineering, 25 Mar. 2026
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Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 26 Mar. 2026
The convention center construction is using a design-build procurement process, Sharp said, where the city would create a technical review committee who issues requests for qualifications.
—Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
Either way, businesses will no longer need to buy expensive software from traditional vendors like Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Microsoft, or from the hundreds of smaller, niche firms offering legal tech, procurement systems, or financial planning software.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2026
Competing for a major Army contract The X3’s unveiling comes ahead of an important procurement decision.
—Munis Raza, Interesting Engineering, 25 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for procurement
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But Viktor Arvidsson, who assisted on all three regulation goals and is proving to be a fantastic acquisition, beat Greaves on a backhander to cash the two highly improbable points.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
30 Mar. 2026
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Texas’ big offseason trade acquisition, left-hander MacKenzie Gore, will make his first start for the Rangers against Philadelphia lefty Jesus Luzardo.—
Jim Barnes,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 Mar. 2026
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Another bulk carrier, the Mac Hope, identifying itself as sailing under Chinese ownership and with a Chinese crew, also transited the strait on Monday, MarineTraffic data show.—
Lucia I Suarez Sang,
CBS News,
31 Mar. 2026
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Part of the company’s dramatic turnaround since new ownership took over in 2019 has been to allow individual stores to tailor the shopping experience and displays to their local markets, rather than corporate’s cookie-cutter mandates, according to reporting by ModernRetail.—
Matt Leclercq,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
31 Mar. 2026
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The accession of Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei in early March completed a decades-long process, solidifying the transformation of the Islamic Republic of Iran from a theocracy into a de facto military dictatorship.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
28 Mar. 2026
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Two months later, the United States announced a twenty-eight-point peace plan proposing major territorial concessions from Ukraine, a cap on the size of its military, and a constitutional ban on its accession to NATO.—
Olivier Kempf,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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“Procurement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/procurement. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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