purchase order

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsorder

   Broadercommercial document

   Narrowercredit orderindentmarket orderproduction orderreorderstop orderstop paymentmail order

Questions about purchase order

What does purchase order mean?

purchase order means "a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities".

What is another word for purchase order?

Close synonyms include order. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is purchase order a common word?

purchase order is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.