buyer

See also: bûyer

English

Etymology

From buy +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪ.ə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪ.ɚ/
• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)

• Audio (US):

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Noun

buyer (plural buyers)

1. A person who makes one or more purchases.

   Every person who steps through the door is a potential buyer, so acknowledge their presence.

   • 1951, Max Winkler, A Penny from Heaven, page 282:

     There is the ultrasystematic buyer and his twin, the careless buyer. The ultrasystematic buyer goes and checks and counts and touches every copy in the store before buying a new one.

   • 2021, Michelle Seiler Tucker, Sharon Lechter, Exit Rich: The 6 P Method to Sell Your Business for Huge Profit, Greenleaf Book Group, →ISBN:

     As we covered in the last chapter, breaches of confidentiality can stop a sale dead in its tracks. To avoid this, our firm plays good cop–bad cop with buyers about confidentiality. The good cop nicely explains that breaching confidentiality is bad, because it will ruin the business they're buying before they’ve even bought it. The bad cop puts the fear of God into them, telling them that if they breach confidentiality, the seller could file a lawsuit against them, […]

2. (retailing) A person who purchases items for resale in a retail establishment.

   The supermarket's new buyer decided to stock a larger range of vegetarian foods.

3. (manufacturing) A person who purchases items consumed or used as components in the manufacture of products.

Synonyms

• purchaser, vendee
• (retailing and manufacturing senses): purchasing agent

Derived terms

• buyer beware
• buyership
• buyer's remorse
• cattle-buyer
• first-time buyer
• gumbuyer
• homebuyer
• housebuyer
• iBuyer
• impulse buyer
• let the buyer beware
• multibuyer
• nonbuyer
• panic buyer
• panic-buyer
• straw buyer

Translations

person who makes purchases

• Albanian: blerës (sq) m
• Arabic: مُشْتَرِي m (muštarī), مُشْتَرٍ m (muštarin), مُشْتَرِيَة f (muštariya)
• Armenian: գնորդ (hy) (gnord), գնող (gnoġ)
• Azerbaijani: alıcı (az), müştəri (az)
• Bashkir: һатып алыусы (hatıp alıwsı)
• Basque: erosle
• Belarusian: пакупні́к m (pakupník), пакупні́ца f (pakupníca)
• Bikol Central: parabakal
• Bulgarian: купува́ч m (kupuváč), купува́чка f (kupuváčka), мющери́я (bg) m (mjušteríja), мющери́йка f (mjušteríjka)
• Burmese: ဝယ်သူ (waisu)
• Catalan: comprador (ca) m
• Chamorro: fafahan
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 買主 / 买主 (zh) (mǎizhǔ), 購買人 / 购买人 (gòumǎirén), 購買者 / 购买者 (zh) (gòumǎizhě), 買方 / 买方 (zh) (mǎifāng)

• Czech: kupující m, kupec (cs) m, zákazník (cs) m, zákaznice (cs) f, nákupčí m
• Danish: køber (da) c, køberinde f
• Dutch: koper (nl) m, koopster f, aankoper (nl) m, aankoopster f, inkoper (nl) m, inkoopster f, klant (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: aĉetanto, aĉetantino (female)
• Estonian: ostja
• Finnish: ostaja (fi)
• French: acheteur (fr) m, acheteuse (fr) f
• Galician: comprador (gl) m, compradora f
• Georgian: მყიდველი (mq̇idveli)
• German: Käufer (de) m, Käuferin (de) f, Einkäufer m, Einkäuferin f
• Greek: αγοραστής (el) m (agorastís), αγοράστρια (el) f (agorástria)

  Ancient: ὠνητής m (ōnētḗs)

• Haitian Creole: achtè
• Hebrew: קוֹנֶה m (koné)
• Hindi: क्रेता (hi) m (kretā), ख़रीदार m (xarīdār), ख़रीदनेवाला m (xarīdnevālā)
• Hungarian: vásárló (hu), vevő (hu)
• Indonesian: pembeli (id)
• Ingrian: ostaja
• Italian: cliente (it) m or f, compratore (it) m, compratrice f, acquirente (it) m or f
• Japanese: 買い手 (ja) (かいて, kaite), 購買者 (こうばいしゃ, kōbaisha)
• Kazakh: сатып алушы (satyp aluşy), алушы (aluşy)
• Khmer: អ្នកទិញ (nĕək tɨñ)
• Korean: 사는 사람 (saneun saram), 구매자(購買者) (ko) (gumaeja)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بکڕ (bikirr)

  Northern Kurdish: bikirr (ku), mişterî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: сатып алуучу (satıp aluucu), алуучу (ky) (aluucu)
• Lao: ຜູ້ຊື້ (phū sư̄)
• Latin: ēmptor (la) m, ēmptrīx (la) f
• Latvian: pircējs m, pircēja f
• Ligurian: acatòu m
• Lithuanian: pirkėjas m, pirkėja f
• Macedonian: купувач m (kupuvač), купувачка f (kupuvačka), муштерија m (mušterija), муштерика f (mušterika)
• Malay: pembeli
• Maltese: xerrej m, xerrejja f, klient m, klienta f
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: худалдан авагч (xudaldan avagč)

• Norman: acateux m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjøper m, kjøperinne m or f

  Nynorsk: kjøpar m

• Occitan: crompaire (oc) m, crompaira (oc) f
• Ojibwe: gaashpinajiged
• Pashto: اخيستونکي m (axistukay), خريدار (ps) m (xaridār)
• Persian: خریدار (fa) (xaridâr), مشتری (fa) (moštari)
• Polish: kupujący m, kupująca f, kupiec (pl) m, kupcowa f, nabywca (pl) m, nabywczyni (pl) f
• Portuguese: comprador (pt) m, compradora f
• Romanian: cumpărător (ro) m, cumpărătoare (ro) f, client (ro) m
• Russian: покупа́тель (ru) m (pokupátelʹ), покупа́тельница (ru) f (pokupátelʹnica)
• Scottish Gaelic: ceannaiche m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ку́пац m, муштѐрија m

  Roman: kúpac (sh) m, muštèrija (sh) m

• Slovak: kupujúci m, kupec m, zákazník m
• Slovene: nakupovalec m, nakupovalka f
• Spanish: cliente (es) m or f, clienta (es) f, comprador (es) m, compradora (es) f, mercante (es) m or f
• Sranan Tongo: baiman
• Swedish: köpare (sv) c, klient (sv) c, inköpare (sv) c, uppköpare c
• Tagalog: tagabili
• Tajik: харидор (xaridor), муштарӣ (muštari)
• Tatar: сатып алучы (satıp aluçı)
• Thai: ผู้ซื้อ (pûu sʉ́ʉ)
• Turkish: alıcı (tr), müşteri (tr)
• Turkmen: alyjy (tk)
• Ukrainian: покупе́ць m (pokupécʹ), купе́ць m (kupécʹ), покупни́ця f (pokupnýcja)
• Urdu: خَرِیدار m (xarīdār)
• Uyghur: خېرىدار (xëridar), سېتىۋالغۇچى (sëtiwalghuchi)
• Uzbek: xaridor (uz), sotib oluvchi, oluvchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: người mua, khách mua

Anagrams

• burye, rebuy