• Purchasing

    Verb

    1. Present participle of purchase

    Full definition of purchasing

    Noun

    purchasing

    (plural purchasings)
    1. The act of making a purchase.
      • 1936, James Arthur Fulton, Our economic nationalism: its purpose and importance (page 84)As our exports and imports are now nearly in balance, it is assumed that such bargaining, if agreed to, would induce the debtor nations to greatly increase their purchasings from us ...
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