Word Study
purchasing
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun purchasing has 1 sense
- purchasing(n = noun.act) buying - the act of buying; "buying and selling fill their days"; "shrewd purchasing requires considerable knowledge" is a kind of purchase
has particulars: shopping, catalog buying, mail-order buying, viatication, viaticus
Derived form verb purchase1
ROGET THESAURUS
purchasing
Purchase
N purchase, emption, buying, purchasing, shopping, preemption, refusal, coemption, bribery, slave trade, buyer, purchaser, emptor, vendee, patron, employer, client, customer, clientele, purchased, caveat emptor, the customer is always right.
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