buyer
Use Buyer in a sentence
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| —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. |
Etymonline
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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