Acquire vs Procurement - What's the difference?
acquire | procurement |
To get.
To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own, as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.
* (Isaac Barrow) (1630-1677)
* (William Blackstone) (1723-1780)
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, passage=Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house?; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something?; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.}}
(uncountable) The purchasing department of a company.
(countable) The act of procuring or obtaining; obtainment; attainment.
Efficient contrivance; management; agency.
As a verb acquire
is to get.As a noun procurement is
(uncountable) the purchasing department of a company.acquire
English
Verb
(acquir)- No virtue is acquired in an instant, but step by step.
- Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law.
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Synonyms
* attain, earn, gain, obtain, procure, secure, winDerived terms
* acquired tasteprocurement
English
(wikipedia procurement)Noun
- He was responsible for the procurement of materials and supplies.
- I have a lot of experience in the procurement of construction materials and sub-contracts.
- They think it done by her procurement . -Dryden.