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 purchaserformal)
▪ He said that he had a prospective buyer for the boat.
buyer's market
first-time buyer
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ Supplies to consumers will not be hit, because the big buyers get most of their fish from outside the North Sea.
▪ Sizzling sectors like the Internet brought big gains to buyers of Netscape.
▪ Calling cold on big company buyers is unlikely to be successful, however.
▪ The bigger buyers don't trust us right away.
▪ Glasgow has six or eight of these big buyers and about two dozen first-division dealers.
▪ National mutual funds were among the biggest buyers, according to an underwriter at A. G. Edwards.
foreign
▪ Analysts forecast an extra fillip to early water dealing with a wave of institutional buying from foreign buyers starved of stock.
▪ Of course, some foreign buyers are blowhards who end up destroying companies and themselves.
▪ The price can be set below the competitors to attract foreign buyers who have to pay in hard currency.
▪ Prodrive Motorsport make rally cars and parts, and low sterling rates are attracting foreign buyers like never before.
▪ In alternate weeks the auction is wholly devoted to domestic buyers or to foreign buyers.
▪ The index, at 1,834.83, is now 138 percent up since the market was opened to foreign buyers on 9 August.
▪ And they say any spare cars are being snapped up by foreign buyers.
large
▪ There was a large contingent of buyers from Eire who took 32 rams in total.
▪ The sellers were scared off by a large buyer.
▪ Gee, sorry, seems about all we have left is miles from the largest concentrations of buyers.
▪ We assume competition the presence of a larger number of buyers and sellers.
potential
▪ Ask your estate agent to send a representative with potential buyers.
▪ As in other auctions, potential buyers can preview the items.
▪ Your estate agent will negotiate with potential buyers, keeping you informed of offers and how the sale is progressing.
▪ And it counts on the jet-propelled feel of its bicycles' ride to appeal to the youthful dreams of potential buyers.
▪ A market is a group of existing and potential buyers or users of a product or service. 6.
▪ Registration for the sale has been repeatedly postponed to accommodate potential buyers, officials said.
▪ Market segmentation is especially important in consumer markets, where the numbers of potential buyers can be measured in millions.
▪ The Stoughton, Mass. company did not name any potential buyers for Avia.
private
▪ These provide compensation for faulty concrete construction in council homes sold to private buyers.
▪ When no private buyers turned up, Visalia did just what Santa Clara did.
▪ The big fleet operators get the biggest discounts - putting the dealers under pressure to maintain higher prices for private buyers.
prospective
▪ What could give a prospective house buyer more confidence?
▪ In University City, some agents issue similar warnings to prospective buyers.
▪ We will have to arrange for advance publicity, set up an office and make arrangements to show prospective buyers around.
▪ Though, as we discuss below, this provision has been modified, the nationalistic sentiment was clearly registered by prospective buyers.
▪ The only way they can market their products is to produce literature detailed enough to convince the prospective buyer.
▪ The following is a check-list for prospective puppy buyers: 1.
▪ Voice over Around 1,000 prospective buyers are likely to turn up for tomorrow's sale.
▪ The prospect has got prospective buyers drooling.
■ NOUN
book
▪ And today's book buyers agree.
car
▪ The sooner car maker take this development seriously, the happier the car buyer will be.
▪ It is just one, however, of several that have sprung up to assist car buyers.
▪ Video guide to new cars CAR buyers could soon choose their new models by watching a video at home.
▪ There is no charge to the car buyer.
▪ Recession has concentrated the minds of car buyers both private and corporate on the economics of running costs.
▪ Super Bowl newcomers include AutoBy-Tel, which hooks up car buyers with dealers via the Internet; eyewear maker Luxotica.
▪ But gas prices remained low, and car buyers focused on comfort and performance rather than fuel-efficiency.
▪ Mitsubishi Motors Corp. hopes car buyers think so.
home
▪ Initially this was given to both individual home buyers and investors, although this policy was later reviewed to exclude investors.
▪ The lowest median income for home buyers was $ 52, 900 in Cleveland.
▪ This would save a home buyer with a thirty thousand pound mortgage just over eleven pounds a month.
▪ Current builder contracts are more sophisticated and worse than ever before for the home buyers.
▪ But for today at least estate agents, and home buyers are celebrating.
▪ He also wants to shift funds to first-time home buyer programs.
▪ The company claims the machines are aimed at the bulk-buy corporate market, schools and home buyers.
▪ Thrifts in the Sun Belt had small deposits and a lot of demand for money from home buyers.
house
▪ What could give a prospective house buyer more confidence?
▪ Good luck to first-time house buyers, particularly during these troubled times.
▪ First-time house buyers are the last people who need assistance.
▪ As a man he became a compulsive house buyer.
▪ Radical breaks on stamp duty are planned to entice house buyers into rundown areas.
▪ The general economic uncertainties, and particularly high unemployment damaged the confidence of prospective house buyers.
time
▪ The lull in the housing market means that mortgage lenders are more desperate than ever to attract first-#time buyers.
▪ The first time buyers recognise the opportunities in the market place.
▪ This compares to an average UK-wide price of £44,050 and an average advance of £37,865 to first time buyers.
▪ The only cloud on the immediate horizon is raising a mortgage - especially if you are a first time buyer.
▪ And she revealed that first time buyers in Northern Ireland have the most affordable housing in Britain.
▪ First time buyers can borrow up to 95% of the valuation or purchase price; product fee is £150.
▪ The company says catering for first time buyers is boosting sales at a time when other builders are reporting big losses.
▪ We appreciate what a stumbling block this can be and will lend you 100% as a first time buyer.
■ VERB
act
▪ Generally, it is not possible to act for both a buyer and a seller, for their interests vary.
▪ Requests for the metal are made in telexes in the names of banks or solicitors acting for the buyer.
▪ As mentioned earlier in the text, it is important to proceed with caution when acting for joint buyers.
allow
▪ Property should come under the Trades Description Act and contracts should allow buyers to back out if they discover undeclared defects.
▪ He was equally tolerant when it came to allowing buyers to choose colours that would go with their interior decoration.
▪ Porsche claims the scheme allows buyers to finance a new 968 for less than £500 a month.
attract
▪ The lull in the housing market means that mortgage lenders are more desperate than ever to attract first-time buyers.
▪ And it allows the auction company more time to put together items and produce a bigger auction, which attracts more buyers.
▪ The collection of earrings, brooches and necklaces have attracted widespread interest from buyers at the International Spring Fair.
▪ Reverse splits make a stock appear more expensive and can attract buyers who will not purchase shares that sell for a pittance.
▪ The price can be set below the competitors to attract foreign buyers who have to pay in hard currency.
▪ Much desired, and disturbingly handsome, the Passat attracts all sorts of buyers.
▪ Prodrive Motorsport make rally cars and parts, and low sterling rates are attracting foreign buyers like never before.
▪ Q.V. stamps of Great Britain failed to attract a buyer, and is safely stored away for next year.
fail
▪ Eighty-nine lots were sold for a total of £1.55 million, with a further sixty-three lots failing to find buyers.
▪ Recovery of the purchase price Where the consideration has totally failed, the buyer can recover any payments he has already paid.
▪ Q.V. stamps of Great Britain failed to attract a buyer, and is safely stored away for next year.
find
▪ If an order was cancelled we would have difficulty finding another buyer.
▪ Still, sellers have faced trouble finding buyers.
▪ But his video may not find as many overseas buyers as his rivals think.
▪ You could probably sell the slate, if you can find a buyer.
▪ They may find no buyers for the hamburgers they plan to sell.
▪ Eighty-nine lots were sold for a total of £1.55 million, with a further sixty-three lots failing to find buyers.
▪ Touche Ross have three months in which to find a new buyer before reporting to Quietwaters creditors.
offer
▪ In the more meaningful deadweight trade signals from the continent also offer buyers encouragement.
pass
▪ In spite of this, the Court of Appeal held that the parties intended risk to pass when the buyers accepted the delivery note.
▪ Thus, sometimes a seller will find himself still in possession of goods after the ownership in them has passed to the buyer.
▪ These savings are passed to buyers.
▪ In that case ownership will not pass to the buyer before the seller has himself succeeded in acquiring that ownership.
pay
▪ The seller is concerned about being paid and the buyer about getting hold of the goods.
▪ If price cuts have to be paid to all buyers this reduces their profitability as well as increasing their detectability.
sell
▪ The stake was sold to a single buyer through Warburg Securities.
▪ Public goods are indivisible, involving such large units that they can not be sold to individual buyers.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a buyer's/seller's market
prospective employee/candidate/buyer etc
▪ Abele also will provide prospective buyers with e-mail updates of new listings that meet their criteria.
▪ In University City, some agents issue similar warnings to prospective buyers.
▪ It's putting off prospective buyers.
▪ Not only does a company interview prospective employees, the would-be employees are supposed to interview the company.
▪ Once you have a list of prospective candidates, you need to do a bit of research.
▪ Requiring drug tests of this discrete group of citizens is an intrusion, a humiliation and a subtle deterrent to prospective candidates.
▪ The élite squads work more intensively and aim to produce at least three prospective candidates in each weight division.
▪ The only way they can market their products is to produce literature detailed enough to convince the prospective buyer.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Lower house prices should attract more buyers.
▪ They've had a lot of enquiries about the company - there's no shortage of potential buyers.
▪ We couldn't find a buyer for our house, so we weren't able to move after all.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Access to the Internet did not much excite these older buyers either.
▪ But what will happen when the holders of all those assets outnumber the buyers?
▪ It is the force which subjects producers and resource suppliers to the dictates of buyer or consumer sovereignty.
▪ One is perfect for the first-time buyer or those seeking a second base, and the other is an ideal family home.
▪ Secondly, there is a buyer credit where a bank in the exporter's country provides a loan to the importer.
▪ This will be the position provided the goods perished before any had been delivered to the buyer.
▪ Whether that will be enough to convince buyers to stick around remains to be seen.