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procurement

[proh-kyoor-muhnt, pruh-] / proʊˈkjʊər mənt, prə- /
NOUN
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Rodriguez, who served on the board from 2013-16, said that during her tenure she focused on overhauling the procurement process to allow small, women-owned and minority-owned businesses to better compete for city contracts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

The bloc has let Canada into its defense procurement alliance and invited Carney and Canadian officials to attend key EU meetings.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

Since then, Njoki has tightened her firm's procurement controls.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Under the new rules, developers must meet stringent state guardrails regarding water usage, workforce commitments and energy procurement to avoid shifting utility costs to residents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

This led to the first major procurement crisis of Groves’s tenure.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

The committee has to sign off on any substantial defence procurements.

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

The DPP budget includes up to about $30 billion of weapons procurements from the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

"These deals will further integrate the Saudi and US economies together, joint ventures in the kingdom, in the United States, procurements of American weapons and goods," says Mr Shihabi.

From BBC ● May 11, 2025

He predicted that a situation like last September — when the grid hit record-high demand, at about 52,000 megawatts — could likely be managed with the state’s contingency resources and additional market procurements.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2023

But for Brutus, his friends and countrymen, both by divers procurements, and sundry rumours of the city, and by many bills also, did openly call and procure him to do that he did.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey


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