PURCHASER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does purchaser mean? 

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

1. a person who buys

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PURCHASER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who buys

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

buyer; emptor; purchaser; vendee

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

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

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

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:

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

 Context examples 

Now I must either bundle it back in to my tin kitchen to mold, pay for printing it myself, or chop it up to suit purchasers and get what I can for it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The purchaser is a foreign nobleman, Count de Ville, who effected the purchase himself paying the purchase money in notes 'over the counter,' if your Lordship will pardon us using so vulgar an expression.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She sent this didactic gem to several markets, but it found no purchaser, and she was inclined to agree with Mr. Dashwood that morals didn't sell.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)