Noun

(uncountable) The purchasing department of a company.

(countable) The act of procuring or obtaining; obtainment; attainment.

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.

Efficient contrivance; management; agency.

They think it done by her procurement . -Dryden.

Noun

(en noun)

The process of constructing.

Construction is underway on the new bridge.

Anything that has been constructed.

The engineer marvelled at his construction .

The trade of building structures.

He had worked in construction all his life.

A building, model or some other structure.

The office was a construction of steel and glass.

(arts) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.

"Construction in string and clockwork" took first prize.

The manner in which something is built.

A thing of simple construction .

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, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.}}

(grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.

The act or result of construing the meaning of something.

American conservatives tend to favor strict construction of the Constitution.

The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.

* 1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 95:

He had considered sending Lucille away to stay with relations. But then people might have put the worst construction on it – might believe she had done something she shouldn't have.

(geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.