| 单词 | purchasing |
| 释义 | purchasing (once / 690 pages) n If you are responsible for buying all the candy for a school sale, you are responsible for purchasing the candy. To make the job easier, you might start a purchasing committee. Purchasing is buying. The word purchasing sounds more official than buying, but it means the same thing — acquiring something by paying for it. In larger businesses, the purchasing department or just "purchasing" is an entire section of the company dedicated to doing the buying. If you lead this department, you might joke that your job is Top Shopper. WORD FAMILYpurchasing: purchasings+/purchase: purchasable, purchased, purchaser, purchases, purchasing, repurchase/purchaser: purchasers/repurchase: repurchased, repurchases, repurchasing USAGE EXAMPLESWealthy businessmen and officials were purchasing elaborate carvings as luxurious gifts or, in some cases, bribes. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) I stopped purchasing Danish that I liked to eat with breakfast. New York Times(Oct 18, 2016) But in his day job, he was a purchasing agent for Windows on the World. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) n the act of buying shrewd purchasing requires considerable knowledge Syn|Hypo|Hyper buying shopping searching for or buying goods or services catalog buying, mail-order buyingbuying goods to be shipped through the mail viatication, viaticuspurchasing insurance policies for cash from terminally ill policy holders marketingshopping at a market purchase the acquisition of something for payment |
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