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buyer

noun
/ˈbaɪ.ə(ɹ)/UK/ˈbaɪ.ɚ/US

Etymology

From buy + -er.

  1. derived from *bʰewgʰ-✻
  2. derived from *bʰūgʰ-✻
  3. inherited from *bugjaną✻
  4. inherited from *buggjan✻
  5. inherited from bycġan
  6. inherited from byen
  7. formed as buyer — “buy + -er”

Definitions

  1. A person who makes one or more purchases.

    • Every person who steps through the door is a potential buyer, so acknowledge their presence.
    • There is the ultrasystematic buyer and his twin, the careless buyer. The ultrasystematic buyer goes and checks and counts and touches every copy in the store before buying a new one.

  2. A person who purchases items for resale in a retail establishment.

    • The supermarket's new buyer decided to stock a larger range of vegetarian foods.

  3. A person who purchases items consumed or used as components in the manufacture of…

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

The neighborhood

Derived

buyer beware, buyership, buyer's remorse, cattle-buyer, first-time buyer, gumbuyer, homebuyer, housebuyer, iBuyer, impulse buyer, let the buyer beware, multibuyer, nonbuyer, panic buyer, panic-buyer, straw buyer

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at buyer. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01buyer02resale03bought04buy05exchange06trading07trade08market09buyers

A definitional loop anchored at buyer. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at buyer

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA