different between gaining vs procurement

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?n??/

Verb

gaining

1. present participle of gain

Noun

gaining (plural gainings)

1. Gain; profit.
   • 1807, The London Medical and Physical Journal

     […] yet, when the Doctor was about it, he might as well have told the public, that my gainings were annually thirty thousand, instead of three […]

English

Etymology

From Old French procurement, from procurer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???kj??.m?nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p???kj???.m?nt/, /p?o??kj???.m?nt/

Noun

procurement (countable and uncountable, plural procurements)

1. (uncountable) The purchasing department of a company.
2. (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.

3. Efficient contrivance; management; agency.

   They think it done by her procurement. -Dryden.

Derived terms

• chief procurement officer

Translations

Old French

Alternative forms

• procurment (less common)

Etymology

procurer +? -ment.

Noun

procurement m (oblique plural procuremenz or procurementz, nominative singular procuremenz or procurementz, nominative plural procurement)

1. procurement; obtainment; obtention
2. persuasion
3. dishonest obtainment; obtainment by trickery

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (procurement)
• procurement on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub