Synonym: procural, procurance. Similar words: procure, measurement, increment, excrement, incremental, retirement, requirement, aforementioned. Meaning: [prəʊ'kjʊrmənt /prə'kjʊə-] n. the act of getting possession of something.
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1. She has responsibility for the procurement of equipment in the company.
2. Russia was cutting procurement of new weapons "by about 80 per cent", he said.
3. Neither was involved in procurement activities.
4. Defence budgeting and procurement do not move along different tracks from defence policy as a whole.
5. Significant parts of the procurement budget are already spent in areas of high unemployment, for example warship orders.
6. Those programs included the design and procurement of nationwide communications systems.
7. Government purchasing Public procurement is another area where the 1992 programme calls for further progress.
8. This means future defense procurement contracts would cost the government less money, defense officials say.
9. Mr. Kenneth Carlisle Equipment procurement including development is already subject to competitive tendering wherever practicable.
10. The contract is for the engineering, procurement, construction and offshore installation, hook-up and commissioning of the satellite platform.
11. Again the opening up of public procurement procedures should result in a significant increase in intra-EC trade and industry re-structuring.
12. At present, China was formulating its Government Procurement Law.
13. He is in charge of the procurement of materials.
14. They are reported to have a substantial budget for the procurement of military supplies.
15. When air traffic controllers needed even the simplest pieces of equipment, the procurement process took 9 to 12 months.
16. That effort produced only modest reductions in uniformed personnel and military units and preserved all major procurement programs.
17. This week, for example, the permanent secretaries of all government departments will meet to discuss best practice in procurement.
18. Many more organ donors, however, are available than are being assessed through existing organ procurement efforts.
19. Typically, public agencies have to secure competitive bids for any procurement contract over a set amount-say, $ 5, 000.
20. This alternative to the matrixing arrangement is exactly what I used in curing a large, troubled government procurement organization.sentencedict.com
21. Toward the mid-1970s, the Army inspector general took notice of the situation and began questioning procurement officials.
22. Governing bodies in Oakland, San Francisco and Berkeley approved resolutions urging the company to adopt ecologically sound procurement policies.
23. In 1984 alone, the Pentagon suspended 453 other companies for violating procurement regulations.
24. Will the Minister tell us what progress has been made on the procurement of air-to-air missiles for the aircraft?
25. The issues are in two main clusters, namely the safety and the pricing and procurement of drugs.
26. Reductions would affect especially artillery and anti-tank weapons, while procurement of naval vessels would be slowed.
27. Galileo development is initially being funded by vendors - under pressure to win new procurement contracts.
28. The main areas covered by this negotiating group included anti-dumping, technical barriers to trade and government procurement.
29. The answer is obvious: Symington, via Leckie, had an early and keen interest in procurement matters.
30. Both of these countries have wealthy white landowners whose procurement of the land was with duress against the indigenous people.
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