fulfillment
Americannoun
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the act or state of fulfilling: to achieve fulfillment of one's hopes.
to witness the fulfillment of a dream;
to achieve fulfillment of one's hopes.
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the state or quality of being fulfilled; completion; realization.
a vague plan that had no hope of fulfillment.
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the process or business of handling and executing customer orders, as packing, shipping, or processing checks.
Other Word Forms
- prefulfillment noun
- superfulfillment noun
Etymology
Origin of fulfillment
Example Sentences
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He has started framing its seizure as the final fulfillment of the 1945 postwar settlement—a victory he notes the U.S. and Chinese people achieved as allies in the defeat of imperial Japan.
It added that the adoption of artificial intelligence, as well as a new automated fulfillment center in Houston, would help pad profit margins.
From MarketWatch
While it’s unclear the extent to which automation could impact jobs in those industries, tech and e-commerce fulfillment companies have been applying that technology in warehouses for years.
Laver said providing logistics services for data-center customers is more complicated than typical order fulfillment for consumer goods.
The latest wave of demand is being fueled by companies setting up U.S. manufacturing, suppliers to the data-center construction boom and retailers outsourcing their fulfillment operations to third-party logistics providers.
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