Wiktionary
n. A person or group whose job is to buy equipment, supplies, inventory, or other assets for a business or other organization.
WordNet
n. an agent who purchases goods or services for another
Usage examples of "purchasing agent".
I never heard of a purchasing agent being shot because of an order, but .
Whitely looked from President to purchasing agent, from Conninger to McBray, and felt his heart sink as he noticed a subtle and unfavorable difference in the attitudes of the two facing him.
Of course, the ideal purchasing agent must first of all have the technical know-how to evaluate, choose, package, and transport the cultures.
While all purchases have stopped elsewhere, they are still coming in from the Bonbucks Teller Central Purchasing agent on the Squeeza credit card.
No purchasing agent in his right mind would trust an important order to someone who had nothing but a vacant shop.
His credentials as a purchasing agent for RERTA, Limited, as well as the Imperial passport, gold-bordered, and the maximum credit line on Halsie-Vyr, showed him as one MacGregor Corson, but the locals were scarcely interested in his name, but in the credit line he represented.
I finally got a five-year charter at an indexed rate plus a commission as an official purchasing agent for the Order.
His purchasing agent explained from eight time zones away that, because CDC had fumbled getting the money cleared, somebody else had bought up the shipment, and that a new batch had to be obtained from out in the bush.