purchasing

acquisition of goods or services by fiduciary exchange
Intangible concept Q1369832
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purchasing

Summary

purchasing is a concept[1]. purchasing draws 2,227 Wikipedia views per month (concept category, ranking #293 of 912).[2]

Key Facts

  • purchasing's instance of is recorded as concept[3].
  • purchasing's instance of is recorded as key event[4].
  • purchasing is a type of trade[5].
  • purchasing is a type of economic activity[6].
  • purchasing is a type of procurement[7].
  • purchasing is a type of Q141344452[8].
  • purchasing is the opposite of sales[9].
  • purchasing's facet of is recorded as business administration[10].
  • purchasing's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11].
  • purchasing's has characteristic is recorded as date of purchase[12].
  • purchasing's equivalent class is recorded as http://borhan-onto.ir/ontology/event#Purchase[13].
  • purchasing's different from is recorded as Purchase[14].
  • purchasing's different from is recorded as by-election[15].
  • purchasing's different from is recorded as shopping[16].
  • purchasing's P14870 is recorded as ont00001334[17].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include concept[3] and key event[4]. Recorded subclass of include trade[5], economic activity[6], procurement[7], and Q141344452[8]. purchasing is the opposite of sales[9].

Why It Matters

purchasing draws 2,227 Wikipedia views per month (concept category, ranking #293 of 912).[2] purchasing has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] purchasing is known by 66 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Q141247525. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Common Core Ontologies. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_purchasing_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{purchasing}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/purchasing}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-01}}
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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → buying
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: buying, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289920808|buying (#289920808)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'mat"
  2. 6d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'ckb', 'de', 'en', 'eu', 'fa', 'fr', 'ht', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko',
    Equivalent class → http://borhan-onto.ir/ontology/event#Purchase
    Sitelink count → 34
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1709]]: http://borhan-onto.ir/ontology/event#Purchase"
  3. 25d ago · Mahir256 · 2026-09-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14870 → ont00001334
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/53024|batch #53024]]"
  4. 25d ago · MsynBot bot · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://borhan-onto.ir/ontology/event#Purchase
    Fabrication method → —
    Concepticon concept set id → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ remove sitelink "trwiki:Tedarik" (page does not exist on client wiki; from client wiki log: page was deleted by User:ToprakM on 2026-08-09, 08:28:03) #trwiki #msynbotTask8"
  5. 27d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → trade, economic activity, procurement +1
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q141344452]]"
  6. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0010390-nakup
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0010390-nakup, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  7. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Fabrication method → —
    Opposite of → sales
    Instance of → concept, key event
    Aliases → —
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 10366, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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