procure

(noun)

To acquire or obtain.

Related Terms

  • qualitative
  • root cause analysis

Examples of procure in the following topics:

  • Purchasing

    • Purchasing managers/directors, and procurement managers/directors, guide the organization's acquisition procedures and standards.
    • A requisition detailing the requirements is generated (and in some cases provides a requirements speciation) and passed to the procurement department.
  • Other Barriers

    • Government procurement programs: Public authorities, such as government agencies, are much like private interests in that they must also buy goods and services.
    • Because government procurement often represent a significant portion of a country's GDP, foreign suppliers are at a disadvantage to domestic ones when it comes to these programs.
  • Chicago/Turabian: Block Quotations

    • Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom.
  • The Diffusion of Innovation

    • They usually look forward to procuring the largest amount of adoption within the shortest period of time.
  • The Organizational Chart

    • Prior to applying for a job or beginning work with an organization, a prospective employee should procure a copy of the organization chart.
  • Commercial Banks

    • When considering commercial banks, it's useful to understand that they act as an outlet for strategic financial decisions for businesses to offset certain risks, procure resources, invest, and store assets.
  • Subsidies and Contracting

    • Government procurement in the United States addresses the federal government's need to acquire goods, services (including construction), and interests in real property.
  • Researching Industrial Markets

    • This is a process where a purchasing organization undertakes to procure goods and services from suitable suppliers.
    • Private companies are able to avoid the complexity of a fully transparent tender process but are still able to run the procurement process with some rigour.
  • Autopsy

    • These examinations are performed under a legal authority (Medical Examiner or Coroner or Procurator Fiscal) and do not require the consent of relatives of the deceased.
    • Within the United Kingdom, clinical autopsies can be carried out only with the consent of the family of the deceased person as opposed to a medico-legal autopsy instructed by a Coroner (England & Wales) or Procurator Fiscal (Scotland) to which the family cannot object.
  • Military Achievements of the Flavians

    • Substantial conquests were made in Great Britain under command of Gnaeus Julius Agricola between 77 and 83, while Domitian was unable to procure a decisive victory against King Decebalus in the war against the Dacians.
    • It was not until the reign of Trajan, in 106, that a decisive victory against Decebalus was procured.
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