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Definition of Purchase order
1. Noun. A commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities. "IBM received an order for a hundred computers"
Generic synonyms: Commercial Document, Commercial Instrument
Specialized synonyms: Bill-me Order, Credit Order, Indent, Market Order, Production Order, Reorder, Stop Order, Stop-loss Order, Stop Payment, Mail Order
Derivative terms: Order
Definition of Purchase order
1. Noun. (context: business) A commercial document issued by a buyer to a seller, indicating the type, quantities and agreed prices for products or services the seller will provide to the buyer. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purchase Order
Literary usage of Purchase order
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cost Accounting, Theory and Practice by Jerome Lee Nicholson (1913)
"The date of the order and the purchase order number are filled in by the purchasing
department. purchase order (Form 2) ..."
2. Cost Accounting: Principles and Practice by John Packard Jordan, Gould Leach Harris (1920)
"B/L must be sent with invoice. We pay no boxing or carfare charges. State how
shipment has been forwarded. Form 7. purchase order. (Size, 81/2 x 11. ..."
3. Principles of Accounting by Albert Claire Hodge, james Oscar McKinsey (1920)
"The purchase order. Regardless of the nature of the purchasing organization, or
of the kind of goods that are to be purchased, there must always issue some ..."
4. Factory Organization and Administration by Hugo Diemer (1921)
"70 is a form for purchase order. On the bottom of the sheet are printed the terms
... An additional carbon copy of the purchase order is usually sent to the ..."
5. Municipal Accounting by De Witt Carl Eggleston (1914)
"Vendor's Copy of purchase order (Form 4) The vendor receives an original and a
duplicate copy of the purchase order. The original copy has the following ..."
6. Municipal Accounting by De Witt Carl Eggleston (1914)
"Vendor's Copy of purchase order (Form 4) The vendor receives an original and a
duplicate copy of the purchase order. The original copy has the following ..."
7. Municipal Accounting by De Witt Carl Eggleston (1914)
"Vendor's Copy of purchase order (Form 4) The vendor receives an original and a
duplicate copy of the purchase order. The original copy has the following ..."
8. Bookkeeping and Accounting by James Oscar McKinsey (1921)
"There are certain points in the design and use of the purchase order which are
of importance to accountants; namely, 1. Instructions and conditions; 2. ..."
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