Usually means: Acquiring goods or services exchange.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word purchasing:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. purchasing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. purchasing: Merriam-Webster
  3. purchasing: Collins English Dictionary
  4. purchasing: Vocabulary.com
  5. Purchasing, purchasing: Wordnik
  6. purchasing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. purchasing: Wiktionary
  8. purchasing: Dictionary.com
  9. purchasing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Purchasing (magazine), Purchasing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Purchasing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. purchasing: Rhymezone
  13. Purchasing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. purchasing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. purchasing: FreeDictionary.org
  16. purchasing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. purchasing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. purchasing: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. purchasing: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  4. purchasing: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. purchasing: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (purchasing)

noun:  An act or process of making a purchase.
noun:  (business, government) A complex, organized process in large organizations for obtaining goods that may include identification of requirements, approvals, supplier management, negotiation, receipt of goods, and payment.
noun:  A part of an organization that manages such processes

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