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buyer

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Editorial note

We don't get many, but the system is so biased towards the buyer that buyers can (and do) get away with straight up fraud.

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Quick take

A person who makes one or more purchases.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of buyer gathered in one view.

noun

A person who makes one or more purchases.

noun

(retailing) A person who purchases items for resale in a retail establishment.

noun

(manufacturing) A person who purchases items consumed or used as components in the manufacture of products.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for buyer.

noun

(retailing) A person who purchases items for resale in a retail establishment.

See also: purchaser, vendee, emptor

noun

(manufacturing) A person who purchases items consumed or used as components in the manufacture of products.

See also: purchaser, vendee, emptor

Example sentences

1

We don't get many, but the system is so biased towards the buyer that buyers can (and do) get away with straight up fraud.

2

I would expect that the pro is going to come to the table with far more knowledge than a home buyer.

3

There was no ebola outbreak at the time the government (and by that, I mean the bureaucracy) was finding a buyer.

4

If there is no buyer for the code for certain number of days, it would be open sourced?

5

The stated problem is 'if the buyer pays before 1st April, then they own the website'.

6

So, if she didn't like the winning price on an auction, she gets a do-over, and the buyer gets hosed.

7

Where there are multiple buyers, no rational buyer is going to look to pay a premium.

8

I have a feeling that provision is there to make sure people don't try to sell credits, screw over the buyer, then the buyer tries to complain to Amazon.

9

If you do, you end up being just another customer, a buyer not a seller.

10

Create visual associates with environments and traditions that your target buyer will identify with.

11

You want to create the feeling that there's something better out there, but you don't want to insult the buyer's historical judgement.

12

Dutch auctions work with one item (or multiple items where a single buyer would want n items of a limited supply: see eBay).

Quote examples

1

To the potential buyer of the IDE using Basic signals, "this is a friendly environment; we don't expect you to be a grizzled professional programmer".

2

So the article title is "Former Apple rival IBM could become the biggest buyer of MacBooks" And the submission title is "IBM to Purchase 200000 Macs Annually with 75% of Empl.

3

For example, you could have an input that is Boolean, which says, "Website transferred from Seller to Buyer: Verified by Verisign: True/False", etc.

4

Usually this means the company knows the buyer (sometimes an existing investor) and basically gives them the info they would give a VC, except the investors buys employee shares rather than new stock - sometimes this will be asked for an investor when they are doing a preferred stock deal, and the investor will agree as an additional "company favorable" term.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use buyer in a sentence?

We don't get many, but the system is so biased towards the buyer that buyers can (and do) get away with straight up fraud.

What does buyer mean?

A person who makes one or more purchases.

What part of speech is buyer?

buyer is commonly used as noun.