purchasingn.

Brit.

/ˈpəːtʃᵻsɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈpərtʃəsɪŋ/

Forms: see purchase v. and -ing suffix¹; also Middle English purchaceyng.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: purchase v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < purchase v. + -ing suffix¹.

1. The action of purchase v.; esp. the action of buying something; an instance of this. In quot. 1747: the gathering of metal ore from a waste heap (cf. purchaser n. 1b).

ΚΠ

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Wisd. xiv. 2 Þat [idol], forsoþe, coueitise of purchasynge [v.r. wynnyng; L. acquirendi] þoȝte out.

c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 5188 (MED) Þat ypotame a wonder beest is..Jn roche is his wonyȝing, Jn water and londe his purchaceyng; Boþe hij eteþ flesshe and fysshe.

a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 78 (MED) The seyd raph shal fynde hors & harnes to hymselfe & to hys wyfe..al so longe as they laboryd a-bout the purchesynge of the kyngys chartur.

c1520 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1905) III. 1 Pet. ii. 9 Bot ye ar..a pepile of purchasing [L. populus acquisitionis].

1595 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 733 Monye..for the purchasing of some competent landes.

1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso ii. xxxvi. 287 The purchasing of Eternity to her name.

1690 W. Stoughton et al. Narr. Proc. E. Androsse in Andros Tracts (1868) I. 143 The purchasing of the Natives Right, was made nothing of, and next to a Ridicule.

1739 P. Aubin Count Albertus vii. 278 I secretly employ'd my Confessor, a very good Ecclesiastick, to propose the purchasing of my Estate and Houses.

1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Sj Sauntle [is] the first pee or bit of Ore that the Cavers find in a morning by Purchassing.

a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) iii. 114 They..appropriated it for the Purchasing of Bread, Flour, Wheat, or other Grain.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xx. 106 Bildad did all the purchasing and providing at the stores.

1884 N.Y. Weekly Tribune 2 Apr. 10/4 The advantages which the Nebraskan Mennonites secure by co-operative purchasing of their implements, machinery, and supplies of all kinds, are manifestly..great.

1946 Times 3 Dec. 8/3 There should be no ham-handed bulk purchasing of stuff which was not really wanted.

1990 Voice of Arab World Dec. 25 17 $1 billion of credits advanced to Iraq for financing the purchasing of agricultural products.

2. Business. (The department within a commercial organization responsible for) the procuring of goods, services, and materials.

ΚΠ

1921 Nebraska State Jrnl. 5 Dec. 10/1 Where is the business in which the directors manage the departments, one at the head of purchasing, another of manufacture, another of sales?

1974 Times 5 Mar. 11/2 (advt.) You'll work with lively people in a job in purchasing.

2004 K. Schwaber Agile Project Managem. v. 62 Even if the engineer accepted the alternative, by the time purchasing got back to the vendor, the component had often been sold to someone else.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

purchasing agent n.

ΚΠ

1777 Jrnls. House of Representatives Pennsylvania 22 Nov. (1782) 170 Effectual measures..for preventing any competition between their purchasing agents and the clothier-general.

1846 T. L. McKenny Mems., Official & Personal I. 302 I supplanted none of..the purchasing agents, in our cities, by others of my own selecting.

1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 3 Apr. 1/2 G. W. Wooster, treasurer, and G. L. McNichol, purchasing agent..have retired into private life.

1991 C. Victor Health & Health Care in Later Life (BNC) 109 The DHA (or other purchasing agent) will then..be able to obtain care for their residents.

purchasing condition n.

ΚΠ

1675 Earl of Essex Lett. (1770) 221 I am not in a purchasing condition.

1701 B. Keach Gospel Myst. Unveil'd II. 138/2 The Tearms of the Gospel are a purchasing Condition.

1994 Guardian (Nexis) 10 June 15 He warned that purchasing conditions were getting tougher.

purchasing manager n.

ΚΠ

1910 Oxnard (Calif.) Courier 25 Feb. 5/2 The firm has increased its patronage from year to year..according to..its purchasing manager.

1969 Times 2 May 34 (advt.) Purchasing Manager. A large British Company in the chemical field requires a manager..to be responsible for all research concerning materials, services and sources of supply.

2003 Sunday Times (Nexis) 19 Jan. (Business section) 11 It would be surprising if a professional purchasing manager could not get some of the discount that the bigger players enjoy.

purchasing officer n.

ΚΠ

1780 Votes & Proc. of Assembly 10 Mar. 148 To obtain from the Purchasing Officers in this State the Accounts and Estimates of the Articles procured.

1822 Times 24 Apr. 3/2 It seems very strange..to argue that the purchasing officers have..established a monopolizing claim.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 199/2 He [sc. the director of stores] is not, however, a purchasing officer, that work being undertaken by the director of navy contracts.

1991 Purchasing & Supply Managem. Apr. 14/1 A new concept called ‘green marketing’ is gradually becoming a top priority for US purchasing officers.

purchasing value n.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > value of money > [noun]

wortheOE

money-worth?c1430

valuation?c1520

money's worth1578

purchasing power1824

purchasing value1861

1861 Times 7 Nov. 6/2 These things surely tend to diminish the purchasing value of money.

1991 Sci. & Past (BNC) 83 The purchasing value of coins was closely related to the intrinsic value of the metal they were made from.

C2.

purchasing power n. the capacity of a monetary unit, sum of money, etc., to buy goods and services; the financial ability of an individual or group to make purchases.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > value of money > [noun]

wortheOE

money-worth?c1430

valuation?c1520

money's worth1578

purchasing power1824

purchasing value1861

1824 J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. 2 42 Those commodities are also the measure of its purchasing power.

1874 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. (ed. 4) ii. iv. 137 The cost of living is augmented, and wages possess less purchasing power.

1927 Times (Weekly ed.) 3 June 694/3 The purchasing power of the chervonetz has slowly but persistently fallen.

1991 Incentive Today Oct. 47/2 The younger age group's purchasing power has also increased.

purchasing power parity n. Economics parity between two currencies at a rate of exchange that gives each currency exactly the same purchasing power in its own economy; also attributive in purchasing power parity theory.

ΚΠ

1918 G. Cassel in Econ. Jrnl. Dec. 413 At every moment the real parity between two countries is represented by this quotient between the purchasing power of the money in the one country and the other. I propose to call this parity ‘the purchasing power parity’.

1939 I. De Vegh Pound Sterling ii. 75 This point of view, known as the purchasing power parity theory, rests fundamentally on the assumption that a change in the internal purchasing power of a currency will, under certain conditions, affect the merchandise balance of the country involved.

1992 Economist 3 Oct. 104/3 It is already overvalued, relative to its purchasing-power parity (PPP), by a bigger margin than any other major currency.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	purchasing
释义	purchasingn. Brit. /ˈpəːtʃᵻsɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpərtʃəsɪŋ/ Forms: see purchase v. and -ing suffix¹; also Middle English purchaceyng. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: purchase v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < purchase v. + -ing suffix¹. 1. The action of purchase v.; esp. the action of buying something; an instance of this. In quot. 1747: the gathering of metal ore from a waste heap (cf. purchaser n. 1b). ΚΠ a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Wisd. xiv. 2 Þat [idol], forsoþe, coueitise of purchasynge [v.r. wynnyng; L. acquirendi] þoȝte out. c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 5188 (MED) Þat ypotame a wonder beest is..Jn roche is his wonyȝing, Jn water and londe his purchaceyng; Boþe hij eteþ flesshe and fysshe. a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 78 (MED) The seyd raph shal fynde hors & harnes to hymselfe & to hys wyfe..al so longe as they laboryd a-bout the purchesynge of the kyngys chartur. c1520 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1905) III. 1 Pet. ii. 9 Bot ye ar..a pepile of purchasing [L. populus acquisitionis]. 1595 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 733 Monye..for the purchasing of some competent landes. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso ii. xxxvi. 287 The purchasing of Eternity to her name. 1690 W. Stoughton et al. Narr. Proc. E. Androsse in Andros Tracts (1868) I. 143 The purchasing of the Natives Right, was made nothing of, and next to a Ridicule. 1739 P. Aubin Count Albertus vii. 278 I secretly employ'd my Confessor, a very good Ecclesiastick, to propose the purchasing of my Estate and Houses. 1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Sj Sauntle [is] the first pee or bit of Ore that the Cavers find in a morning by Purchassing. a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) iii. 114 They..appropriated it for the Purchasing of Bread, Flour, Wheat, or other Grain. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xx. 106 Bildad did all the purchasing and providing at the stores. 1884 N.Y. Weekly Tribune 2 Apr. 10/4 The advantages which the Nebraskan Mennonites secure by co-operative purchasing of their implements, machinery, and supplies of all kinds, are manifestly..great. 1946 Times 3 Dec. 8/3 There should be no ham-handed bulk purchasing of stuff which was not really wanted. 1990 Voice of Arab World Dec. 25 17 $1 billion of credits advanced to Iraq for financing the purchasing of agricultural products. 2. Business. (The department within a commercial organization responsible for) the procuring of goods, services, and materials. ΚΠ 1921 Nebraska State Jrnl. 5 Dec. 10/1 Where is the business in which the directors manage the departments, one at the head of purchasing, another of manufacture, another of sales? 1974 Times 5 Mar. 11/2 (advt.) You'll work with lively people in a job in purchasing. 2004 K. Schwaber Agile Project Managem. v. 62 Even if the engineer accepted the alternative, by the time purchasing got back to the vendor, the component had often been sold to someone else. Compounds C1. General attributive. purchasing agent n. ΚΠ 1777 Jrnls. House of Representatives Pennsylvania 22 Nov. (1782) 170 Effectual measures..for preventing any competition between their purchasing agents and the clothier-general. 1846 T. L. McKenny Mems., Official & Personal I. 302 I supplanted none of..the purchasing agents, in our cities, by others of my own selecting. 1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 3 Apr. 1/2 G. W. Wooster, treasurer, and G. L. McNichol, purchasing agent..have retired into private life. 1991 C. Victor Health & Health Care in Later Life (BNC) 109 The DHA (or other purchasing agent) will then..be able to obtain care for their residents. purchasing condition n. ΚΠ 1675 Earl of Essex Lett. (1770) 221 I am not in a purchasing condition. 1701 B. Keach Gospel Myst. Unveil'd II. 138/2 The Tearms of the Gospel are a purchasing Condition. 1994 Guardian (Nexis) 10 June 15 He warned that purchasing conditions were getting tougher. purchasing manager n. ΚΠ 1910 Oxnard (Calif.) Courier 25 Feb. 5/2 The firm has increased its patronage from year to year..according to..its purchasing manager. 1969 Times 2 May 34 (advt.) Purchasing Manager. A large British Company in the chemical field requires a manager..to be responsible for all research concerning materials, services and sources of supply. 2003 Sunday Times (Nexis) 19 Jan. (Business section) 11 It would be surprising if a professional purchasing manager could not get some of the discount that the bigger players enjoy. purchasing officer n. ΚΠ 1780 Votes & Proc. of Assembly 10 Mar. 148 To obtain from the Purchasing Officers in this State the Accounts and Estimates of the Articles procured. 1822 Times 24 Apr. 3/2 It seems very strange..to argue that the purchasing officers have..established a monopolizing claim. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 199/2 He [sc. the director of stores] is not, however, a purchasing officer, that work being undertaken by the director of navy contracts. 1991 Purchasing & Supply Managem. Apr. 14/1 A new concept called ‘green marketing’ is gradually becoming a top priority for US purchasing officers. purchasing value n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > value of money > [noun] wortheOE money-worth?c1430 valuation?c1520 money's worth1578 purchasing power1824 purchasing value1861 1861 Times 7 Nov. 6/2 These things surely tend to diminish the purchasing value of money. 1991 Sci. & Past (BNC) 83 The purchasing value of coins was closely related to the intrinsic value of the metal they were made from. C2. purchasing power n. the capacity of a monetary unit, sum of money, etc., to buy goods and services; the financial ability of an individual or group to make purchases. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > value of money > [noun] wortheOE money-worth?c1430 valuation?c1520 money's worth1578 purchasing power1824 purchasing value1861 1824 J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. 2 42 Those commodities are also the measure of its purchasing power. 1874 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. (ed. 4) ii. iv. 137 The cost of living is augmented, and wages possess less purchasing power. 1927 Times (Weekly ed.) 3 June 694/3 The purchasing power of the chervonetz has slowly but persistently fallen. 1991 Incentive Today Oct. 47/2 The younger age group's purchasing power has also increased. purchasing power parity n. Economics parity between two currencies at a rate of exchange that gives each currency exactly the same purchasing power in its own economy; also attributive in purchasing power parity theory. ΚΠ 1918 G. Cassel in Econ. Jrnl. Dec. 413 At every moment the real parity between two countries is represented by this quotient between the purchasing power of the money in the one country and the other. I propose to call this parity ‘the purchasing power parity’. 1939 I. De Vegh Pound Sterling ii. 75 This point of view, known as the purchasing power parity theory, rests fundamentally on the assumption that a change in the internal purchasing power of a currency will, under certain conditions, affect the merchandise balance of the country involved. 1992 Economist 3 Oct. 104/3 It is already overvalued, relative to its purchasing-power parity (PPP), by a bigger margin than any other major currency. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1382
随便看	θ52755 θ52756 θ52757 θ52758 θ52759 θ5276 θ52760 θ52761 θ52762 θ52763 θ52764 θ52765 θ52766 θ52767 θ52768 θ52769 θ5277 θ52770 θ52771 θ52772 θ52773 θ52774 θ52775 θ52776 θ52777