purchaserformal

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

a person who buys something
shopperHoliday shoppers mobbed the sale.
customerShops were lowering prices to attract more customers.
punterUKThe shop's running a raffle to pull in the punters.
patronShe's been a regular patron of the pub for years.
consumerConsumers did not spend as much last quarter as analysts predicted.
buyerWe haven't found a buyer for the house yet.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Enterprises
acquiree
acquiror
agency
agribusiness
answering service
anti-conglomerate
clicks and mortaridiom
conglomerate
consortium
estate agent
financial technology
fintech
firm
flyer
organizational
organizationally
parent company
partner up
partnership
zombie company

acquirer | Business English

acquirer
noun[ C ]
uk /əˈkwaɪrər/ us /-rɚ/
a person or company that buys another company:
an acquirer of sthOver the past few years, he has been a single-minded acquirer of small Web-development agencies.
a possible/potential/would-be acquirer

Examples of acquirer

acquirer
In no study have acquirers ever been asked who would receive shares in secondary distributions of resources given out during a primary distribution.
The acquirer is used for knowledge acquisition, where knowledge is represented in the form of transcription protocols (graphical and textual) and a glossary.
Thus, the problems of the child acquirers seemed more severe and widespread than those of the early acquirers.
Early acquirers also had trouble with pronoun gender, articles, and wh- questions, whose subtypes included subject - verb inversion and do insertion.
When the early acquirers had problems, it was in exactly one of these categories.
In particular, she noted that learners provided with appropriate feedback are likely to be faster acquirers of second-language cue strengths.
These acts of sharing may signal intent to engage in reciprocal cooperative endeavors, rather than phenotypic quality of the acquirer.
Nonetheless, we should expect cultural rules governing distributions to at least partially reflect the interests of the acquirer, so as to motivate future production.
First, an acquirer may not feasibly be able to direct shares to a specific other person.
The ability to acquire information implies sentience on the part of the acquirer, which again makes it more likely to be human.
Any gathered food or cultigen comes in small increments and so production levels are subject to an acquirer's control.
However, late acquirers had difficulties on virtually every rule type except those involving word order.
After all, children with limited working memory capacity are efficient acquirers.
They are honest because they are not easily faked, and they can therefore provide reliable information about some quality of the acquirer.
They see themselves as acquirers of knowledge and skills, first in the classroom and laboratory, and later in the clinical setting.
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