customer agent
- noun
:
agente comercial
- A customer agent typically purchases goods in bulk for overseas distribution.
Examples
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The company appointed a customer agent in Asia to expand its international sales.
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Several exporters rely on a customer agent to facilitate sales in foreign markets.
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The customer agent negotiated the best price for the products.
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Many customer agents work with international suppliers.
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A customer agent is responsible for buying products from manufacturers to sell in their home country.
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To reach new markets, we hired a customer agent who specializes in sourcing goods for resale abroad.
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After careful research, the customer agent selected high-demand products for the foreign market.
Synonyms
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1.0
A person or company that buys from a business
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1.0
A person who pays money to get goods or services
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2.1
A person or company that buys and sells things to make money
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3.3
A person or company that brings goods into a country to sell them
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3.4
A person or company that buys large amounts of goods and sells them to shops
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3.7
A person or business that buys goods to sell to others for profit
Surface Forms
Morphology
Both constituents are semantically transparent—'customer' (buyer) and 'agent' (representative)—so a B1 learner would likely infer a general sense of 'an agent who acts on behalf of customers.' However, the precise commercial meaning given (a foreign buyer who purchases goods directly for resale in another market) is more specific and domain‑bound and is not fully predictable from the parts alone, so it is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Customer agent comes from the idea of someone who is both a customer and an agent: imagine a shop owner from another country who comes to buy large boxes of goods to take home and sell in their own shops. That's why it means 'a buyer who purchases goods directly to sell again in another market'.