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purchasing, vbl. n.|ˈpɜːtʃɪsɪŋ|
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a. The action of the verb purchase in various senses. In quot. 1747, the gathering of ore from the waste heap: cf. purchaser 1 c.
13..K. Alis. 5197 In water and londe [is] his purchaceyng. Boþe hij eteth flesshe and fysshe. 1375Barbour Bruce ii. 579 And swa thar purchesyng maid thai. 1386[see purchaser 1]. 1494Fabyan Chron. vi. clxx. 164 As they wente in purchasynge of prayes. 1595in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 733 Monye..for the purchasing of some competent landes. 1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. ii. xxxvi. (1674) 188 The purchasing of Eternity to her name. 1747Hooson Miner's Dict. S j, Sauntle [is] the first pee or bit of Ore that the Cavers find in a morning by Purchassing. 1800in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 193 A fund..for the purchasing Potatoes.
b. attrib., as purchasing agent, purchasing manager, purchasing officer, purchasing power, purchasing value; purchasing power parity (see quots. 1918, 1939).
1921Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 3 Apr. 1/2 G. W. Wooster, treasurer, and G. L. McNichol, *purchasing agent, two of the oldest employees of the company, have retired into private life.
1675Earl of Essex Lett. (1770) 221, I am not in a *purchasing condition.
1969Times 2 May 34 (Advt.), *Purchasing Manager. A large British Company in the chemical field requires a manager to establish and develop a new central section to be responsible for all research concerning materials, services and sources of supply.
1963B.S.I. News Apr. 22/2 *Purchasing officers should make appropriate sample tests of goods received to ensure that they complied with the contract requirements.
1824J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. II. 42 Those commodities are also the measure of its *purchasing power. 1863Fawcett Pol. Econ. ii. iv. (1876) 137 The cost of living is augmented, and wages possess less purchasing power. 1930Economist 11 Jan. 78/2 Good chain-store sales this month indicate a satisfactory volume of purchasing power. 1979Bull. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. Mar. 42 Those prices will rise, and in addition, wages and other prices will also tend to rise in order to maintain their original ‘purchasing power’.
1918G. Cassel in Economic Jrnl. Dec. 413 At every moment the real parity between two countries is represented by this quotient between the purchasing power of the money in the one country and the other. I propose to call this parity ‘the *purchasing power parity’. 1939I. De Vegh Pound Sterling ii. 75 This point of view, known as the purchasing power parity theory, rests fundamentally on the assumption that a change in the internal purchasing power of a currency will, under certain conditions, affect the merchandise balance of the country involved. 1965Seldon & Pennance Everyman's Dict. Econ. 350 Purchasing power parity is..only a partial explanation of exchange rates, although when other circumstances are generally stable it can give a rough guide to them.
1862Sat. Rev. XIII. 640/1 If we could suddenly double the whole quantity of sovereigns and their equivalents in England, the *purchasing value of each coin would..be reduced to exactly one half of its former amount. |