buyer

CEFRB1

/ˈbaɪ.ə(ɹ)/

noun

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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.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

A person who purchases items for resale in a retail establishment.
A person who purchases items consumed or used as components in the manufacture of products.

In context

Every person who steps through the door is a potential buyer, so acknowledge their presence.
The supermarket's new buyer decided to stock a larger range of vegetarian foods.
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.

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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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