# buyer

Pronunciation: US say "BY-ur" /ˈbaɪ.ɚ/; UK say "BY-uh" /ˈbaɪ.ə(ɹ)/

## Noun

1. A person who buys something, making a single purchase or several.
   - Simple: A person who buys something.
   - _The house sat on the market for months before a buyer finally made an offer._
   - _First-time buyers often underestimate how much the closing costs will be._
2. A person who buys goods for a store or other retail business to resell to its customers.
   - Simple: A person whose job is choosing and buying the things a store will sell.
   - _As a fashion buyer for the chain, he travels to trade shows to pick next season's lines._
   - _The bookstore's buyer passed on the title, so it never reached the shelves._
3. A person who buys the materials and parts a manufacturer uses up or builds into its products.
   - Simple: A person whose job is buying the parts and materials a factory uses to make things.
   - _The plant's buyer negotiated a two-year contract for aluminum sheet._
   - _The chip shortage left buyers at car makers scrambling for parts._

## Origin

Formed from buy + the suffix -er.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/buyer (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).