purchasing department

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   the division of a business that is responsible for purchases

   Broaderbusiness department

Questions about purchasing department

What does purchasing department mean?

purchasing department means "the division of a business that is responsible for purchases".

Is purchasing department a common word?

purchasing department is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.