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emptor

[ emp-ter, -tawr ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

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

Origin of emptor¹

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

Caveat emptor, this list could go on for another dozen easily.

They would have to push on still further westward if they wished to find good land ready for the pre-emptor.

Meanwhile you trust at your peril, caveat emptor, your eyes are your market, or words to similar effect.

Selling the suspicion wronged nobody—he would give no warranty with it—Caveat emptor.

When he comes home, he's a harmless settlement loafer, or an industrious pre-emptor.

Caveat emptor becomes discredited as an unmodified basis of human action.

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