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Definition: Purchase Order |
Purchase OrderNoun1. A commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment; "IBM received an order for a hundred computers". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Instruction sent by a client, or his authorized representative, to buy a given quantity of an identified security under specified conditions. Source: European Union. (references) |
Economics | A purchaser's written offer to a supplier formally stating all terms and conditions of a proposed transaction. (references) |
| A written authorization, signed by a designated employee, calling on a supplier or vendor to provide goods or services at specified prices. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: Purchase OrderSynonym: order (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Purchase Order |
| Specialty definitions using "purchase order": award clerk ♦ bid clerk, Bill-To Party, buyer, assistant ♦ director, procurement services ♦ ENGRAVER, SEALS ♦ Irrevocable Corporate Purchase Order ♦ manager, material control, MANAGER, PROCUREMENT SERVICES ♦ PARTS-ORDER-AND-STOCK CLERK, PROCUREMENT CLERK, purchaser, automotive parts, purchase-request editor, purchasing clerk, purchasing-and-fiscal clerk, purchasing-contracting clerk. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Trade | Laos | IMPORT/EXPORT DOCUMENTATION: A) FOR GENERAL GOODS, IMPORTERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTATION FOR EACH SHIPMENT: 1) CONTRACT WITH A FOREIGN SUPPLIER OR PURCHASE ORDER; 2) IMPORT LICENSE (7 COPIES); 3) LETTER OF CREDIT OR PAYMENT GUARANTEE PAPER FROM A FOREIGN EXCHANGE BANK; 4) TRANSPORT DOCUMENTS; 5) BILL OF LADING; 6) CUSTOMS CLEARANCE (IMPORT) REPORT. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expressions using "purchase order": purchase order change request message ♦ purchase order message ♦ purchase order response message. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "purchase order"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | købsordre (buying order, order to buy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kooporder (buying order, order to buy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ordre d'achat, bon d'achat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kaufauftrag (buying order), Kaufanweisung (buying order, order to buy), Bestellschein (order form, order slip), auftragsbestätigung (acceptance of order, confirmation of order). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εντολή αγοράς (buying order, order to buy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megrendelés (order, subscription). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ordine di acquisto (buying order, order to buy), ordinazione (commission, order, ordination), mandato di acquisto (buying order, order to buy), commissione di acquisto (buying order, order to buy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 購入注文 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "うにゅうちゅうも". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urchasepay orderay ordem de compra (buying order, order to buy). (various references) заказ (indent, order, purchase orders). (various references) orden de compra (buying order, order to buy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-h-o-p-r-r-r-s-u" | |
-2 letters: reproachers, reproducers, repurchased. | |
-3 letters: predaceous, prerecords, procedures, reproached, reproacher, reproaches, reproducer, reproduces, repurchase, superorder. | |
-4 letters: hardcores, horserace, persuader, preachers, precursor, preorders, prerecord, prescored, procedure, procurers, producers, purchased, purchaser, racehorse, rearoused, recorders, rephrased, reproduce, rerecords, scarpered, sharecrop, superhero, superrace, superroad, upreached, upreaches. | |
-5 letters: adherers, caperers, caroused, carouser, chorused, chresard, coherers, corrades, coshered, crusader, curseder, dhourras. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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