0 the process of getting supplies:
a substantial budget for the procurement of military supplies
1 the process by which an organization buys the products or services it needs from other organizations:
It had about a 1,000 looms and had traditionally been a major procurement centre for silk and mixed textiles produced in this entire region.
The guidance aims to remove ambiguity regarding the use of procurement to pursue social objectives.
The first measure was to reform the state unified procurement system for agricultural products.
In our view, saving lives through organ procurement (and transplantation) is at least as important as these other communitarian goals and should be handled similarly.
Coincidentally, after some earlier reforms of procurement quotas and prices, the government opened timber markets in 1985.
This in turn makes large bodies less useful in food procurement, while keeping their metabolism requirements high.
The procurement of marble most likely focused on one primary area in the main quarry.
These sometimes involved significant changes in the overall grain procurement arrangement but more commonly were frequent 'switch-ons' or 'switch-offs' of, or modifications to, policy measures.
