forwarding agent
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of forwarding agent
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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"I used to work as a clearing and forwarding agent at the airport in the 1980s, that's where I learnt about avocado exports."
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2018
The forwarding agent told him that to secure payment, he must submit six copies of his bill to a bank.
From Time Magazine Archive
From an Austrian forwarding agent, Wiesenthal learned that Stangl's furniture had been shipped to Damascus, Syria.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every trans-shipper and middleman adds his commission, every valuer or forwarding agent gets his fee.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once I took some of my superfluous luggage to a forwarding agent in Palermo to have it sent to England by piccola velocità.
From Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions by Henry Festing Jones
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