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purchasing agent

noun

Definitions

  1. A person or group whose job is to buy equipment, supplies, inventory, or other assets for…

    A person or group whose job is to buy equipment, supplies, inventory, or other assets for a business or other organization.

    • Subjoined is a statement from the purchasing agent at New-York, with a schedule giving the name, tonnage, price demanded, and cost actually paid of every vessel that has been bought by him.
    • Since taking over as mayor last January, Lee has . . . forced the resignation of the city purchasing agent because he bought $10,000 worth of water pipe without asking for bids.
    • The newspaper claims to have “confirmed” that Humayun Khan’s family import-export business, Pakland Corp., was a purchasing agent for Pakistan’s nuclear programme.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA