Definition of "purchasing agent" []

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

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• "Turnbull was another youthful merchant like Peter Whitesides, a Scot who immigrated in 1770 and found work as a purchasing agent for Pennsylvania and for the Secret Committee."
• "In 1728, Falconar and Henry Darnell formed an association of 29 London tobacco merchants to deal with the French tobacco purchasing agent as a group in order to keep the price as high as possible."