direct purchase
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdirectandpurchase
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direct
adjective
uk/daɪˈrekt/us/daɪˈrekt/
going in a straight line towards somewhere or someone without stopping or ...
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purchase
noun
uk/ˈpɜː.tʃəs/us/ˈpɝː.tʃəs/
something that ...
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(Definition ofdirectandpurchasefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This will doubtless include facilities to make direct purchases of shares in branches.
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They used to collect these home-made products either as commission agent or as through direct purchases.
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Decisions on whether to pursue private finance (eg leasing) ordirectpurchaseoptions should be based on value for money and transfer of risk criteria.
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I cannot answer that question beyond saying that we do know the cost of this because it is adirectpurchase.
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I refer todirectpurchaseof resources, transfers and purchase of existing assets.
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As a very last resort,directpurchasemay be agreed.
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Our estimates are not in a form which allows him to judge what thedirectpurchaseof resources will be in those years.
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I use "procurement" in its largest sense, whetherdirectpurchaseor the general supervision of raw materials purchased on private account.
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These includedirectpurchasefrom voluntary and private organisations, internal trading with other local authorities and purchasing as part of a consortium of local authorities.
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The extensive reductions which we are making indirectpurchaseof resources by the reductions in expenditure and by the higher charges will have a big effect on demand.
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The discounts obtainable bydirectpurchasefrom the manufacturers are usually insufficient to offset the cost of storage, including administrative costs, breakages, thefts and losses, and so on.
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Of course, the assets are long term; that is why, instead of adirectpurchaseand sale it is sensible to deal with the matter by means of a licence.
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I say it is an outrage that none of that surplus, or virtually none of it, should be spent in thedirectpurchaseof herrings from this country.
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There can be no justification for the exclusion from the scope ofdirectpurchaseof care services on grounds only of the identity of the provider.
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66% of the transactions made online involve direct purchases via the websites of airline operators, travel agents or via specialist websites offering last-minute travel deals.
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To end the shortage of hog casings here, we should have to make direct purchases for dollars, which we cannot afford at present.
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Some £40 million to £43 million was spent on direct purchases from mainland manufacturers.
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