PURCHASING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does purchasing mean? 

• PURCHASING (noun)
  The noun PURCHASING has 1 sense:

1. the act of buying

  Familiarity information: PURCHASING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PURCHASING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of buying

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

buying; purchasing

Context example:

shrewd purchasing requires considerable knowledge

Hypernyms ("purchasing" is a kind of...):

purchase (the acquisition of something for payment)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "purchasing"):

shopping (searching for or buying goods or services)

catalog buying; mail-order buying (buying goods to be shipped through the mail)

viatication; viaticus (purchasing insurance policies for cash from terminally ill policy holders)

Derivation:

purchase (obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction)

 Context examples 

This tells me purchasing your house or apartment will be a good action to take in 2020.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

After a year, shoppers were still purchasing over 15% fewer of the items compared to when no policy was in place.

(Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases, University of Cambridge)

I really must talk to him about purchasing a donkey.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

While purchasing it, the clerk glanced at his nails, suggested a nail-file, and so he became possessed of an additional toilet- tool.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I exchanged my land-sledge for one fashioned for the inequalities of the Frozen Ocean, and purchasing a plentiful stock of provisions, I departed from land.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Mrs. Fairfax surmised that he was gone to make arrangements for his wedding, as he had talked of purchasing a new carriage: she said the idea of his marrying Miss Ingram still seemed strange to her; but from what everybody said, and from what she had herself seen, she could no longer doubt that the event would shortly take place.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

To examine the effect that the introduction of checkout food policies in major supermarket chains has had on shoppers’ purchasing habits, the researchers analysed data from the Kantar Worldpanel’s Consumer panel for food, beverages and household products.

(Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases, University of Cambridge)