purchaser
pronunciation
How to pronounce purchaser in British English:
UK [ˈpɜːtʃəsə(r)]
How to pronounce purchaser in American English:
US [ˈpɜːrtʃəsər]
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- Noun:
- a person who buys
Word Origin
- purchaser (n.)
- c. 1300, from Anglo-French, Old French porchaceor, agent noun from porchacier (see purchase (v.)).
Example
- 1. Instead , they are licensed to the purchaser .
- 2. Cost correlates with computing power , and providers are coy about how fast any given vps is , leaving the purchaser to test to find the right level .
- 3. According to the new law , the controls will apply to " purchases of land or other real estate property , vehicles , securities and stocks , if their amount exceeds the income of the purchaser and his or her spouse for the three years immediately preceding the transaction . "
- 4. Similarly a country that is the primary purchaser of a product -- in economic jargon has monopsony power -- may be able to benefit by driving a hard bargain with the sellers and imposing an unduly low price on them . One way to do so is to impose a tariff on the import of the product .