emptor

[emp-ter, -tawr]

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noun

(especially in legal usage) a person who purchases or contracts to purchase; buyer.

Origin of emptor

1870–75; < Latin: buyer, equivalent to em(ere) to buy + -tor -tor, with intrusive -p-

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Related Words for emptor

customer, patron, shopper, client, user, consumer, purchaser, prospect, sucker, representative, emptor, vendee

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Historical Examples of emptor

He is an Emptor Familiæ, and inherits the legal clothing of the person whose place he begins to fill.
Ancient Law
Sir Henry James Sumner Maine