purchasing department
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3.0
- noun
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departamento de compras
- Each purchase order submitted to the purchasing department must include a detailed list of required items.
Examples
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For me, the main point was the telephone conversation with Billy the next day, from my office in the purchasing department, where I had at last got a job.
Fiction book (1999) -
The longer a project languishes in design, the less time there is for the purchasing department to negotiate prices.
Academic text (2006) -
Women sell equipment, run large purchasing departments, and own businesses in this industry.
Blog text (1) -
By now, our team included not only engineers, but members of the marketing, quality, and purchasing departments, as well as suppliers.
Academic text (2012) -
The study involved a survey of the material bought by the hospital's supply and purchase department (SPD).
Academic text (1994) -
Employees in the purchasing department still actually order the steel using the company's enterprise resource management system, which tracks the large number of orders made by Prince.
Academic text (2002) -
As he regularly did, Robert McKenney biked the four miles from his Skokie home to Northeastern, where he worked in the purchasing department.
Blog text (17) -
In the past, it had tried to sell conservative railroads and their purchasing departments on high-efficiency bearings that could slash operating costs, but got nowhere.
Academic text (2012) -
If you're into making stuff work, being on the phone all day with the purchasing department, the distributor, and the OEM to sort out your licensing and support agreements is not pleasant.
Blog text (25) -
The purchasing department is responsible for acquiring the materials needed for our production line.
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Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from 'purchasing' (acquiring items/services) modifying 'department' (an organizational unit), so a learner can infer it is the unit responsible for buying. This noun+noun composition is a common, cross-linguistic workplace pattern and follows standard English compounding, making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows the constituents.
Etymology
Purchasing department names the team in a company that 'purchases', which means 'buys', the goods and services the business needs. The word purchasing shows the action of buying and department means a group or office, so the phrase means 'the part of a company that buys goods and services'.