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Single word to denote both request and receipt

English Language & Usage Asked on November 30, 2020

Whenever I am ordering components for some project I put them in a project tracker. A line might be like:

Order and Receive 5 Boxes

or

Request and Pick up the Check

When writing code to do networking you also have this problem. You have some code to "request" some data, and then you have code to handle what happens if the data doesn’t come through. But on top of that there is a function that hides all that complexity and just "____"s the data.

Obtain, requisition, and acquire are all decent solutions to this problem. The problem is that they don’t explicitly contain within them the idea that the task is both started and completed within the scope of this single word.

Requisition is much more like a request that has a high probability of success. Obtain and acquire certainly have a connotation of success and completion, but without the idea of the process that precedes them.

Those words are also a bit erudite.

Compound words are probably fine as long as they are normal use. Phrases are less good but maybe ok.

I have taken to using the made up word carg for this (because to me it sounds a bit like both cargo and the Spanish word encargar, which means to place in charge). But it turns out you can’t expect others to know your private made up words.

Any other ideas? 🙂

2 Answers

Fulfillment or fulfillment process come to mind.

Answered by glennw on November 30, 2020

Procured - implicit that something was requisitioned, ordered and received.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/procure

Definition of procure 1transitive : to get possession of (something) : to obtain (something) by particular care and effort

Answered by tblue on November 30, 2020

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