Buyer
['baɪə] or ['baɪɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who buys; a purchaser.
Typed by Keller
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See BUY]
Edited by Guthrie
Examples
- If he advances the tax, therefore, the buyer must generally repay it to him. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The buyer is scarce ever under the necessity of buying, and will, therefore, only give such a price as he likes. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Because it would be unknowingly sold with the mounds else, and the buyer would get what he was never meant to have, and never bought. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Sales of one lot Circassians, prime to good, 1852 to 1854, at L240 . 242, buyer 30; one forty-niner--damaged--at L23, seller ten, no deposit. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Transactions on the New York Stock Exchange may be made in three different ways: Cash, regular or on a limited option to buyer and seller as to the time of delivery or acceptance. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Can't be buyer and seller too. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- As soon as a price is agreed on, each broker--the buyer and the seller--makes a memorandum of the transaction, which is reported to the offices at once by telephone. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He was a grain buyer and the agent for several insurance companies and he also loaned money at high rates of interest. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Don't your horses want feeding, or your reddlebags want mending, or don't you want to find buyers for your goods, that you stay idling here like this? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I don't suppose the buyers of Americana sit up reading them all night--old Jefferson Gryce certainly didn't. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- This provision is to bring buyers and sellers in any security together as quickly as possible. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The difference is greater or less, according as the fashionableness and scarcity of the wine render the competition of the buyers more or less eager. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- That made a good beginning, but after that it was more difficult to find buyers, and the firm began to grow doubtful of their venture. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- There were two buyers directly, and more of the listeners plainly hesitated. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- There was no lack of buyers, but, on the contrary, the factory was unable to turn out batteries enough. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In the earlier days truck buyers made many mistakes in selecting the size or capacity of trucks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Edited by Amber