purchasing agent

collocation in English

meaningsofpurchaseandagent

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purchase
noun
uk
/ˈpɜː.tʃəs/us
/ˈpɝː.tʃəs/
something that ...
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agent
noun[C]
uk
/ˈeɪ.dʒənt/us
/ˈeɪ.dʒənt/
a person who acts for or ...
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(Definition ofpurchaseandagentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpurchasing agent

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Are the using departments to have the custody of their own stores or is there to be apurchasingagentand traffic stores superintendent?
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Will the procurement responsibility involve a professional man acting aspurchasingagentfor his client?
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She moved up to be the chiefpurchasingagentand later ran the commercial furniture dealership.
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He became apurchasingagent, then manager of the company's real estate department, and then assistant to the president.
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A person who purchases material used to make goods is sometimes called apurchasingagent.
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The manager's duties include acting aspurchasingagent, seeing that laws and ordinances are enforced, making appointments and removals, and fixing the compensation of appointees.
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He later became thepurchasingagentfor the city's housing authority.
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In the early 1960s, a grand jury indicted eleven officials including councilmen, commissioners, the city auditor, the countypurchasingagentand the city tax assessor.
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Goodison was then named a governmentpurchasingagentand a public censor.
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The position responsibilities may be the same as that of a buyer orpurchasingagent, or may include wider supervisory or managerial responsibilities.
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As an office manager andpurchasingagentin a local tool supply and die shop, he discovered that there were many tools/parts which were not readily available.
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Purchasing agents of mental institutions are getting more money than we are.
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Hunter stated that he wanted explanations from the companies in question and the government purchasing agents who had approved the purchases, accusing the latter of absolute incompetence.
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