buyer
Americannoun
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buyers
plural
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a person who buys; purchaser.
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a purchasing agent, as for a department or chain store.
noun
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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
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of buyer
First recorded in 1150–1200, buyer is from the Middle English word beger, bier. See buy, -er 1
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What mattered was finding a buyer who would honor that history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
With buyer traffic to newly built homes at the lowest level since April 2012, excluding the onset of the pandemic, 43% of home builders are cutting prices in October.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
This contrasts with Monmouthshire which had the highest household income at £61,700 as well as the most expensive average house prices at £285,000 for a first-time buyer and £387,606 overall.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
After failing to secure a buyer at that price, Paul lowered his expectations, eventually reducing the asking price to around $8.2 million in January.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
Since the buyer couldn’t know whose corn they were purchasing, the Chicago Board of Trade made up a category called number 2 field corn.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
“The stock will likely come under some pressure today as a result, but we would be buyers on a pullback,” RBC analyst Tom Narayan wrote in a note to clients on Tuesday.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
In more affordable cities, where housing demand has surged as first-time buyers search for less expensive housing, starter-level home prices have outpaced luxury prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
While high mortgage rates are keeping many from would-be home buyers from taking the leap, real-estate investors, including people buying second homes, are active.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
Higher mortgage rates are keep more buyers on the sidelines, forcing some home builders to cut prices.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
The United States, meanwhile, had become a major supplier of arms to the Allies—by this time, because of the blockade of German ports, the only available buyers.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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