purchasing agent
Noun
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Noun
purchasing agent (plural purchasing agents)
- A person or group whose job is to buy equipment, supplies, inventory, or other assets for a business or other organization.
- 1861, "Report of the Secretary of the Navy ↗," New York Times, 4 Dec. (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.
- 1960, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,869435,00.html Nettled Nickel-Nipper]," Time, 4 Apr.:
- 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.
- 2004, Khalid Hasan, "Pakistan mired in another nuclear scandal ↗," Daily Times, 25 May (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.
- 1861, "Report of the Secretary of the Navy ↗," New York Times, 4 Dec. (retrieved 21 Oct. 2008):
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