purchase order
noun
: a formal document that is used by an employee to request that something be purchased by a company
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For a purchase order of $14,413, Allvan had to pay $11,977 in tariffs.
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Hadley Hitson, Nashville Tennessean, 2 Oct. 2025
The purchase order comes 13 months after the businesses signed a contract for preliminary engineering work on the Mk 104 rocket motor.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2025
Saks Global moved from four different purchase order and supply chain systems to one over Labor Day weekend in a streamlining effort.
—Evan Clark, Footwear News, 15 Sep. 2025
Identifying and Automating Your Most Repetitive Tasks Identify your most common manual tasks—such as purchase order creation, invoice matching and order acknowledgments—and automate them.
—Mahesh Rajasekharan, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
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Hadley Hitson, Nashville Tennessean, 2 Oct. 2025
The purchase order comes 13 months after the businesses signed a contract for preliminary engineering work on the Mk 104 rocket motor.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2025
Saks Global moved from four different purchase order and supply chain systems to one over Labor Day weekend in a streamlining effort.
—Evan Clark, Footwear News, 15 Sep. 2025
Identifying and Automating Your Most Repetitive Tasks Identify your most common manual tasks—such as purchase order creation, invoice matching and order acknowledgments—and automate them.
—Mahesh Rajasekharan, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for purchase order
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“Purchase order.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/purchase%20order. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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