procurement.

The organized process of obtaining goods or services, especially for an institution.

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Words that belong together

• public procurement
• procurement contract

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Public procurement rules required an open competition.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, evaluation, social science. Commonness: moderately common.