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
Example Sentences
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Sotheby's did not name the buyer of the custom Luce.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Ford is the industry’s biggest buyer of aluminum, which it uses for the bestselling F-150 pickup, and it has been forced to rely more heavily on imported aluminum after factory fires sidelined its biggest supplier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
“The biggest buyer of non-alcoholic beverages,” he said, “are people who are drinkers.”
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
A put option gives the buyer the right to sell the underlying security under the same criteria.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
The other, bigger, buyer was UBS—which took $2 billion in Howie Hubler’s triple-A CDOs, along with a couple of hundred million dollars’ worth of his short position in triple-B-rated bonds.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
The uptick in home buyers started during the pandemic, when low interest rates drew capital into the residential market, driving up prices and helping renovation projects pencil out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Additionally, the company’s cloud business has more than doubled in the past three years as Google sells AI compute to eager enterprise buyers.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
I know a lot of buyers claim to have CVT-induced PTSD.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
At the heart of the wine industry’s crisis is a basic supply and demand problem: too many grapes and not enough buyers, industry experts told The Times this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The news of the approach of the procession ran ahead of it, and in their little dark offices the pearl buyers stiffened and grew alert.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
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