buyer

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

People who buy things
anti-consumer
bidder
buyer
consumer
couponer
end user
foot traffic
importer
late adopter
multi-client
personal shopper
prosumer
punter
rag-and-bone man
ragman
scrap dealer
speculator
tradesman
tradespeople
wholesaler

purchaser | Business English

purchaser
noun[ C ]
 COMMERCEuk /ˈpɜːtʃəsər/us
a person or company that buys something:
The sale of the property is complete when both the vendor and the purchaser have signed the relevant documents.
The world's single largest purchaser of oil is the Pentagon.
potential/prospective purchasers

Examples of purchaser

purchaser
The purchaser should be warned, therefore, that the two volumes should be purchased together in order to access the full scholarly apparatus.
Hence, this enabled the risk factor previously ascribed to the seller-colono to be passed on to the purchaser.
Instead, the government would act as an active and prudent purchaser, on behalf of the population, to select and contract with providers.
This involves private individuals, health authorities and social services, all acting as purchasers of care services provided by a variety of agencies.
An understanding of the practices of the purchasers is vital for coal producers and will affect everyone in the coal industry including geologists.
The funder then allocates a budget to the purchaser who has responsibility for obtaining specific outcomes or 'deliverables' at the best available price.
The first of them was that of purchaser.
Local authority contracts officers and purchasers, anxious not to (be seen to) waste money, therefore generally disliked such contracts.
A number of purchasers in 1996 were looking to increase their use of block contracts, especially for domiciliary care.
Finally, we recognise that actual motivations will also reflect the 'subjective experiences', as realised through ongoing relations with purchasers.
Comparisons were made between the defence and civil sectors of the aerospace industry, with fleet purchasers also making their contribution.
Convention and common sense dictated that potential purchasers were obliged to scrutinise the accounts of the target company.
Even at the local level, the decisions of one purchaser, such as a general practice fundholder, do not determine service delivery for the whole community.
A contract specification choice that local authority purchasers are beginning to examine more carefully is the degree of flexibility, particularly with respect to prices.
Examples include joint negotiations of quality standards and monitoring among purchaser, provider, and professional organizations.
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Collocations withpurchaser

purchaser

These are words often used in combination with purchaser.

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foreign purchaser
I refer to a private company, a group of ports, a property developer or a foreign purchaser.
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