BUYER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does buyer mean? 

• BUYER (noun)
  The noun BUYER has 1 sense:

1. a person who buys

  Familiarity information: BUYER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUYER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who buys

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

buyer; emptor; purchaser; vendee

Hypernyms ("buyer" is a kind of...):

client; customer (someone who pays for goods or services)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "buyer"):

customer agent (a foreign purchaser who buys goods outright for resale)

home buyer (someone buying a house)

orderer (someone who places an order to buy)

Derivation:

buy (obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction)

 Context examples 

The scientists also recommend caps on antibiotic use and levying user fees on buyers of farm antibiotics which would effectively make it more expensive and discourage excessive use.

(Eat less meat to cut drug resistance, SciDev.Net)

Soon in came buyers, who paid him handsomely for his goods, so that he bought leather enough for four pair more.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

You likely have a contract or another paper to sign with a business client, or a buyer or seller in your personal life, and will wisely need to see the other party face-to-face.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“I can't be buyer and seller too,” said Mr. Dolloby.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Now a bag of remarkable clothespins, next, a wonderful nutmeg grater which fell to pieces at the first trial, a knife cleaner that spoiled all the knives, or a sweeper that picked the nap neatly off the carpet and left the dirt, labor-saving soap that took the skin off one's hands, infallible cements which stuck firmly to nothing but the fingers of the deluded buyer, and every kind of tinware, from a toy savings bank for odd pennies, to a wonderful boiler which would wash articles in its own steam with every prospect of exploding in the process.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

On December 22, landlords and brokers, and buyers and sellers of real estate will want to work with you—and you will be able to accord them easily.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)