purchasing agent

English

Noun

purchasing agent (plural purchasing agents)

  2. A person or group whose job is to buy equipment, supplies, inventory, or other assets for a business or other organization.
    Synonyms: buyer (narrow sense), purchaser (narrow sense)
    Hypernyms: buyer (broad sense), purchaser (broad sense) < agent
    • 1861 December 4, “Report of the Secretary of the Navy”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, retrieved 21 Oct. 2008:
      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.
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    • 1960 April 4, “Nettled Nickel-Nipper”, in Time‎[2], New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC:
      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.
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    • 2004 May 25, Khalid Hasan, “Pakistan mired in another nuclear scandal”, in Daily Times, retrieved 21 Oct. 2008:
      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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