procurement

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pro=cure=ment

CIDE DICTIONARY

procurement, n. 

•  The act of procuring or obtaining; obtainment; attainment.  [1913 Webster]
•  Efficient contrivance; management; agency.  [1913 Webster]

  "They think it done
  By her procurement."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

procurement

accession, accouterment, acquirement, acquisition, addition, armament, attainment, catering, chandlery, coming by, dragging down, earnings, endowment, equipment, finding, fitting out, furnishing, furnishment, gaining, getting, getting hold of, investment, logistics, making, moneygetting, moneygrubbing, moneymaking, obtainment, obtention, outfitting, preparation, procural, procurance, procuration, providing, provision, provisioning, purveyance, reinforcement, replenishment, resupply, retailing, securement, selling, subsidization, subsidy, subvention, supply, supplying, trover, victualing, winning

ROGET THESAURUS

procurement

Acquisition

N acquisition, gaining, obtainment, procuration, procurement, purchase, descent, inheritance, gift, recovery, retrieval, revendication, replevin, restitution, redemption, salvage, trover, find, trouvaille, foundling, gain, thrift, money-making, money grubbing, lucre, filthy lucre, pelf, loaves and fishes, the main chance, emolument, profit, earnings, winnings, innings, pickings, net profit, avails, income, proceeds, produce, product, outcome, output, return, fruit, crop, harvest, second crop, aftermath, benefit, sweepstakes, trick, prize, pool, pot, wealth, subreption, obreption, stealing, acquiring, acquired, profitable, advantageous, gainful, remunerative, paying, lucrative, lucri causa.

Agency

N agency, operation, force, working, strain, function, office, maintenance, exercise, work, swing, play, interworking, interaction, procurement, causation, instrumentality, influence, action, modus operandi, quickening power, maintaining power, sustaining power, home stroke, operative, efficient, efficacious, practical, effectual, at work, on foot, acting, in operation, in force, in action, in play, in exercise, acted upon, wrought upon, by the agency of through, by means of, I myself must mix with action lest I wither by des.