Synonyms:
buyer, purchaser, emptor, vendee
Meaning: a person who buys
Usage examples
But last year I just missed a purchaser who would have given twelve.
Ah! no, we were mistaken; he had discovered a purchaser for his diamond.
The wealth might disappoint, Myself a poorer prove Than this great purchaser suspect, The daily own of Love
They were rarely separated from their homes when their land was sold; they and all that they had became the property of the purchaser.
The 'Clonmel', with her valuable cargo, was sold in Sydney, and the purchaser, Mr. Grose, set about the business of making his fortune out of her.
"That you cannot do, for it is also required of me that I shall appear as the deeds are to be delivered to any purchaser, and divulge to him the awful secret of the house."
Grotesquely incongruous amidst these forms, I presently came on estate boards, appealing, "Houses can be built to suit purchaser," to the silence, to the shadows, and the glare.
So in America, far more than in the older countries, land changes hands by sale, the purchaser going into debt for it, giving his note and paying interest on the loan rather than rent for the farm.
He did not want to commit this treachery, but luck threw the man in his way, and this saved him the necessity of going up-country to hunt up a purchaser, with the added risk of having to answer a lot of questions, whereas this planter was so pleased with Roxy that he asked next to none at all.