purchaser
nounEtymology From purchase + -er.
1
One who purchases.
- If this was unrestricted freehold, the land is available for sale or lease, although often it is not readily marketable, by reason of its shape and access; neighbouring landowners are possible purchasers. In some cases, reversionary rights were reserved to neighbouring landowners when the land was acquired.1951 June, “The Why and the Wherefore: Abandoned Branch Lands”, in Railway Magazine, page 428:
- Derived terms
- copurchaser, nonpurchaser, purchasership, straw purchaser, subpurchaser
- Related terms
- buy
- Hypernyms
- recipient
- Hyponyms
- prostitute's client, regular
- Holonyms
- clientele, customer base