forwarding agent

noun

1. freight forwarder.

forwarding agent

noun

1. a person, agency, or enterprise engaged in the collection, shipment, and delivery of goods

Word History and Origins

Origin of forwarding agent¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

"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

To find his way through Brazil's bureaucracy, Mr Cornet-Vernet had to hire a lawyer, a forwarding agent and an accounting specialist.

From BBC

But a far more notable mythological personage is to be recognised in the so-called forwarding agent, or dispatcher, who makes arrangements for the transportation of the dead, and pays the customary passage-money into the hands of the boatman; the latter is generally a common fisherman, who officiates as Charon.

From Project Gutenberg

He is, as he says, a forwarding agent, and has received from some of his mercantile friends a commission to transport a certain number of souls, as many as can find room in an ordinary boat, from the coast of East Friesland to the White Island.

From Project Gutenberg

Then the Mayor presented the city dignitaries to him: the higher District Judge, a noble landed proprietor from the neighbourhood, the rector, the two doctors, and a forwarding agent, and Klaus Heinrich addressed a question to each, thinking over, while the answer came, what he should say to the next.

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