procurement

1. 1.

   the act of getting possession of something

   “he was responsible for the procurement of materials and supplies”

   Synonymsprocuranceprocural

   Broaderacquisition

Other forms of procurement

plural

procurements·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about procurement

What does procurement mean?

procurement means "the act of getting possession of something".

How many syllables are in procurement?

procurement has 3 syllables: procu-rem-ent. The stress falls on "rem". In IPA it is /pɹoʊˈkjʊɹmənt/.

What is another word for procurement?

Close synonyms include procurance, procural. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is procurement a common word?

procurement is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.