Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Dutch term or phrase:
gezamelijke inkoop
English translation:
joint/cooperative purchasing
Dutch term
Netherlands
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Native in: Dutch 
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gezamelijke inkoop
I'd appreciate it very much if anybody could give me suggestions for "gezamelijke inkoop".
The term is used in the following sentence:
Family offices kunnen hulp bieden aan:
Families die een efficiënte kostenstructuur willen opzetten door gezamenlijke inkoop.
The context is families of wealth and the services that this particular Family Office offers. It's the translation of their website. I considered mutual purchases but I'm doubting if this is the ideal solution.
Thank you for your time.
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Tina Vonhof (X)
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| 4 +5 | group buying |
jarry (X)
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| 4 +1 | collective purchasing |
L.J.Wessel van Leeuwen
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| 4 | consolidated buying |
Elsje Apostel
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Proposed translations
joint/cooperative purchasing
http://www.canlii.org/nl/laws/sta/i-19.1/20090324/whole.html
http://www.canadiancommunities.org/gpa/lib/pdf/legal/CanadaMICPA.pdf
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Dave Calderhead
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Thank you Dave.
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TechLawDC
: "collective" has a communist connotation; "group" is fraught with ambiguities and/or colloquialsim; "consolidated" means joint among companies in a group of affiliated companies (e.g. under a holding company)
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Thank you. I agree with your assessment of the various options.
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South Africa
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Native in: English 
, Dutch
Works in: Dutch to English, Afrikaans to English, French to English, and 3 more.
collective purchasing
Belgium
fast & reliable
Native in: Dutch (Variant: Flemish) , Flemish (Variant: Dutch)
Works in: Dutch to English, German to Dutch, French to Dutch, and 5 more.
consolidated buying
Consolidated Buying Company, LLC is the largest buying group for petroleum operators
group buying
Translator group buying
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http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/ICECT.2...
In group buying, when buyers cooperate with each other, a seller can discount the price of a good. In many existing group buying sites, some sellers deal in the same sort goods or their imitations. Buyers form coalitions for each item on sale. Buyers cannot always purchase goods at a lower price, because buyers? sub-groups are distributed. Buyers need to search hard to find the goods they can purchase. In this paper, we propose a group buying marketplace on the Internet. In our marketplace, buyers can purchase goods at a lower price by forming coalitions.
311,000 more Google hits
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writeaway
: google hits aren't necessarily an indicator (peanut butter gets millions more but it's not correct ;-) ) in any case this is the obvious translation into English. to quote George Clooney, what else?
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Thank you. I am well aware and need no warning or reminder of the limitations of Google hits. The two I quoted, and not the other 310,998, underpin my suggested answer.
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Dave Calderhead
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Thanks Dave
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Neil Cross
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Thanks Neil
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Buck
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Thanks Buck
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Tina Vonhof (X)
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Thanks Tina
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