emptor

[emp-ter, -tawr]

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of emptor¹

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

Example Sentences

Either I’m right and you made money, or you learned the first rule of capitalism: “Caveat emptor” isn’t Latin for “trust the guy with the column.”

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“It comes back to caveat emptor,” Kipling said.

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Caveat emptor: Some films our panelists pick to get in the race haven’t yet been released to the public.

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As the phrase goes in Latin — caveat emptor, or “let the buyer beware.”

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Thank the Supreme Court when “caveat emptor,” buyer beware, will apply to everything in the name of protecting us from those pesky regulations.

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