Buyer
/ˈbaɪ.ə(ɹ)/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA person who makes one or more purchases.
nounA person who purchases items for resale in a retail establishment.
Sentence Examples
An Indian buyer and a Japanese businessman haggled over the price of the new product.
They still haven't found a buyer for that house.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The real estate agent showed the house to a potential ____ this morning.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The real estate agent is looking for a potential ____ who is interested in purchasing this historic property today.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree English buy Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English buyer From buy + -er.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"There is the ultrasystematic buyer and his twin, the careless buyer. The ultrasystematic buyer goes and checks and counts and touches every copy in the store before buying a new one."
— 1951, Max Winkler, A Penny from Heaven, page 282:
"As we covered in the last chapter, breaches of confidentiality can stop a sale dead in its tracks. To avoid this, our firm plays good cop–bad cop with buyers about confidentiality. The good cop nicely explains that breaching confidentiality is bad, because it will ruin the business they're buying before they’ve even bought it. The bad cop puts the fear of God into them, telling them that if they breach confidentiality, the seller could file a lawsuit against them, […]"
— 2021, Michelle Seiler Tucker, Sharon Lechter, Exit Rich: The 6 P Method to Sell Your Business for Huge Profit, Greenleaf Book Group, →ISBN:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The real estate agent showed the house to a potential ____ this morning.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The real estate agent is looking for a potential ____ who is interested in purchasing this historic property today.