buyer
Americannoun
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a person who buys; purchaser; customer
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a person employed to buy merchandise, materials, etc, as for a shop or factory
Etymology
Origin of buyer
First recorded in 1150–1200, buyer is from the Middle English word beger, bier. See buy, -er 1
Example Sentences
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A year after Green Mountain College closed for good in 2019, the school found an unlikely buyer for its stately campus in rural Vermont.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
The biggest buyer of gold last year was Tether, the stablecoin issuer, with over 100 tons.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
IPO-crazed investors have gobbled up stock offerings from a data-center buyer, AI provider, chip maker, automotive-software developer and geothermal power producer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
While acknowledging that if global liquidity conditions tighten or the situation in the Persian Gulf deteriorates,there is a risk of a sell-off in emerging markets, JPMorgan insists it would be a buyer on any pullbacks.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
The floors of subprime mortgage bonds were not called floors—or anything else that might lead the bond buyer to form any sort of concrete image in his mind—but tranches.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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