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Broker's quarry
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buyer
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Word definitions for buyer in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a potential customer/buyer/client ▪ Advertisers want to reach as many potential customers as possible. a prospective buyer ( also a prospective purchaser formal ) ▪ He said that he had a prospective buyer for the boat. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who makes one or more purchases. 2 (context retailing English) A person who purchases items for resale in a retail establishment. 3 (context manufacturing English) A person who purchases items consumed or used as components in the manufacture ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, biggere "one who purchases," agent noun from buy (v.). Meaning "one whose job is to buy goods for a store" is from 1884. Buyer's market attested from 1886.
Usage examples of buyer.
This man was her friend, buyer of unneeded pickups, acceptor of her erotic video collection.
When IBM started making the boxes, the smart buyers bought IBM iron because they knew there was a good chance the apps they wanted would follow.
Hennessys continued on to the Continental Hotel to meet with Monsieur Jules Barat, the pearl buyer.
When the old bibliomaniac died, aged eighty, Halliwell was energetic in repairing the roof of Middle Hill, finding a buyer for it, and breaking the entail on the estate.
Domenico Micheli the right to moneys which could not belong to the buyer till after the father of the seller was dead.
With the closing down of the ratting ring, Thomas Tooth and George Betteridge had taken it into their minds to find another buyer for their Bank of England bill paper, no longer trusting Marybelle Firkin as their intermediary.
They had a buyer for their place: but they had been gazumped on the flat they wanted to buy.
With Hakeem now prowling ahead on foot, leading his horse, Tancred leisurely rode Apollo through the throngs of merchants and buyers.
The plate-glass doors swung open and the trio plunged bravely into the jostling throng of buyers and loiterers.
Find buyers for all the young stock you can, except for that two-year-old stud out of that San Peppy mare.
Cars of spectators and buyers were already arriving at the auction when Pilar located the turnoffto the old, rambling house.
San Francisco had written to warn him that the Railroad might be able to take advantage of a technicality, and by pretending that neither Quien Sabe nor Los Muertos were included in the appeal, attempt to put its dummy buyers in possession of the two ranches before the Supreme Court handed down its decision.
But as I was on the point of leaving, that segundo of the buyers arrived and tried to stir up a little trouble.
The heavy seigniorage tax on gold and silver, and the costs of transportation by way of Panama, also sent a stream of contraband metal from Charcas to Buenos Aires, where it found eager buyers among the Portuguese traders from Brazil, who even founded the town of Colonia on the opposite bank of the estuary to facilitate their hazardous traffic.
No one complained about this marketing deception, as it was understood by buyers and sellers alike that Gables-by-the-sea sounded much more toney than Gables-on-the-Canal.