Purchaser
['pɜːtʃɪsə(r)] or ['pɝtʃəsɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who purchases; one who acquires property for a consideration, generally of money; a buyer; a vendee.
(n.) One who acquires an estate in lands by his own act or agreement, or who takes or obtains an estate by any means other than by descent or inheritance.
Typist: Maura
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Buyer.
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Examples
- When the licence was once purchased, whether the purchaser drunk much or drunk little, his tax would be the same. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But yet hope was there none, neither to the afflicted to be delivered, neither yet to the purchaser [i. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- If the purchaser is obliged to give more, exchange is above par and in favor of London. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Nobody buys it but in order to sell it again; and with regard to it there is, in ordinary cases, no last purchaser or consumer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- She sent this didactic gem to several markets, but it found no purchaser, and she was inclined to agree with Mr. Dashwood that morals didn't sell. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Notwithstanding the stringent laws on the subject, much of the oleomargarine made is sold for, and by the average purchaser is not distinguishable from, pure butter. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Cash, at time of purchase, was always paid by the broker; but the purchaser had only to put up his margin. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The tax is finally paid by the last purchaser or consumer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Such was the supposed instability of government, that even these terms procured few purchasers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Now I must either bundle it back in to my tin kitchen to mold, pay for printing it myself, or chop it up to suit purchasers and get what I can for it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- A foreman-representative of the dust contractors, purchasers of the Mounds, had worn Mr Wegg down to skin and bone. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The brokers did a fine business, and so did many such purchasers as were sharp enough to quit purchasing before the final crash came. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I don't mean merely over the workmen; I mean over purchasers--over the whole world's market. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The price was a fixed one, but McCormick was patient with the purchasers. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- As a result he soon gained the farmers’ confidence, and his name became identified with square, and even with lenient, dealing with all classes of purchasers. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- There were no newspapers, and no means of advertising, and the only practical method of sale was to show the book to possible purchasers, and point out its merits to them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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