buy·er

[bahy-er]
noun
1.
a person who buys; purchaser.
2.
a purchasing agent, as for a department or chain store.

Origin:
1150–1200; Middle English beger, bier. See buy, -er1

buyer, byre, pyre.
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buyer (ˈbaɪə) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
1.  a person who buys; purchaser; customer
2.  a person employed to buy merchandise, materials, etc, as for a shop or factory

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Buyer is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Word Origin & History

buyer
c.1200, biggere "one who purchases," agent noun from buy. Meaning "one whose job is to buy goods for a store" is from 1884. Buyer's market attested from 1926.
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Example sentences
Although the home buyer credit delayed their descent for a while, you can't
  keep an overvalued market up forever.
The buyer pays a premium for the right to exercise his option should prices
  move in a set direction.
The penny-lower price can then raise questions in the buyer's mind about
  quality.
Claiming this year's first-time home buyer's tax credit is easy.
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