Word Finder - buyers

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A person who makes one or more purchases.

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

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

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

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

This was at first left wholly to private enterprise; but, as Austrian buyers not only competed with each other but also with buyers from other countries, this was bound to send up prices, while the interests of the State were subordinated to private gain.

Three prospective buyers had looked at the house and at least one seemed interested.

Recent home buyers are suing to get their money back.

The first is that spinners would be performing the two functions of industrial management and cotton buying (together with others perhaps), and that in consequence the best industrial men would not necessarily be able to maintain their position in the trade because as buyers of cotton they might be unfortunate.

Ready buyers were not found for the state lands, and the sale of the ex-sultan's securities was disputed by the German Reichsbank with which they were deposited, while the government did not consider it good policy to sell the Anatolian railway shares, which it seized at Yildiz, so that only £T450,000 were encashed by the ministry of finance from these sources.

Besides these there are several large depots of state stallions, which are hired out or sold at moderate rates; but buyers have to guarantee not to export them without permission of the government.

But, careless for the morrow, he was always printing at his own cost great books which found no buyers.

Only the very narrow range of goods manufactured in peace-time found buyers, and these were used exclusively for the equipment of those going to the front.

Industry was thus in many ways compensated for the paralysis of trade with private buyers in the home market and for the closing of foreign markets, and it would have been able to continue quietly on the old lines but for the emergence of a new factor which fundamentally altered the conditions.

These boards were now given the monopoly of the right to import certain wares (sometimes private buyers were allowed to purchase, but only on condition of selling the goods imported to the board); they were also entrusted with the reception of the instalments of raw materials already mentioned as released from bond in Germany.

In 1906 and in 1907 the crop was very large; the pool sold its lower grades of the 1906 crop at 16 cents a pound to the American Tobacco Company and forced the independent buyers out of business; and the Burley Society decided in 1907 to grow no more tobacco until the 1906 and 1907 crops were sold, making the price high enough to pay for this period of idleness.

During the great trade "boom" of 1905 there was a good deal of buying by exporters in advance of their indents because manufacturers continued to contract engagements which threatened to exclude dilatory buyers.

The town has a considerable agricultural and retail trade, and there is a monthly horse fair largely attended by English and continental buyers.

On the other hand, the owner of one or two hundred colonies would find it more lucrative to work for extracted honey and send it out to wholesale buyers in that form.

Where are your gullible Boston buyers?

Potential buyers are looking for a property that they can see themselves living in.

We buy big & make small margins; no "buyers remorse here."

The price of the diesel automobile can be an issue to buyers.

Amazon started with the narrow market of book buyers, and many observers were outraged at its high stock price when it went public; it was only a bookseller, after all.

The increasing number of buyers that the site attracts makes it more useful for sellers, who in turn list more goods resulting in more variety.

This site is dedicated to sellers and buyers of unique, handmade and vintage items.

Combing through user reviews can give buyers a good idea of how easy the product is to operate and how reliable it remains over time.

Curity diapers are no longer manufactured, but some modern buyers are still interested in purchasing the actual diapers, diaper liners and ads as collectibles.

There are not many cotton mills or weaving sheds in Manchester, which is, however, the great distributive centre, and its Exchange is the meeting-place of most classes of buyers and sellers in the cotton trade and various trades allied to it.

As buyers of finished goods for London and the country do not attend it, certain departments of the home trade are hardly represented, but practically all the spinners and manufacturers and all the export merchants of any importance are subscribers.

Export buyers, attended by salesmen, are commonly more or less stationary and prominent; Burnley manufacturers abound in one locality and spinners of Egyptian yarns in another.

The towns of Cantu, Meda, Lissone and Carugo supply Milanese firms with most of their merchandise, the furniture being made by the workmen at their own homes with materials supplied by the Milanese buyers, who also advance the capital necessary for working expenses.

Buyers of certain excellent classes of Swedish iron have been said to object even to the substitution of electricity for water-power as a means of driving the machinery of the forge.

While many buyers from America and Russia are personally in attendance at the sales, many more are represented by London and Leipzig agents who buy for them upon commission.

The horse and wool markets of Mecklenburg are largely attended by buyers from various parts of Germany.

The metal-work of China and Japan, so pleasantly naïve and inexpensive, though becoming undesirably modified as to design through contact with European buyers, is losing none of its matchless technique, which indeed in Japan is still being developed.

Owing to the great railway which crosses the country from Riga to Smolensk, afterwards dividing into two branches, to Orenburg and Tsaritsyn on the lower Volga respectively, Riga is the storehouse and place of export for hemp coming by rail from west central Russia, and for corn, Riga merchants sending their buyers as far east as Tambov.

Before the crop is all gathered in a meeting of buyers and sellers takes place in each district, at which the price to be asked is discussed and settled, and the opium handed to the buyers, who in many instances have advanced money on the standing crop. When sufficiently solid the pieces of opium are packed in cotton bags, a quantity of the fruits of a species of Rumex being thrown in to prevent the cakes from adhering together.

He owned many ships, and traded with great profit to himself abroad, because he could promise, as a king, advantages to foreign buyers and sellers with which no mere merchant could compete.

The provisions of the statute of Kilkenny against trading with the Irish failed, for markets cannot exist without buyers.

Throughout this period, as asking prices became more approachable, buyers returned to the market, slowly pushing sale prices upwards.

Disbursements Services paid for by the Conveyancer on the buyers behalf such as stamp duty, land registry charges and search fees.

You may think you can outsmart the management team by inviting competitive bids from trade buyers.

Homes with features such as high levels of insulation, double-glazing and energy-efficient boilers could be more attractive to buyers, and sell quicker.

Whereas Senior Buyers could have earned up to £ 70K plus bonus a few years ago, those days are now over.

These high numbers of first time buyers are giving the housing market a much needed boost.

For first time buyers, the UK price of around £ 50-55 depending on the exchange rates puts it above the impulse buy category.

There are no simple choices anymore so to attract buyers, prices have to be softer.

Privacy Policy Woodland Herbs do not disclose buyers ' information to third parties.

Many films came out complete with soundtrack CD or a book to tempt buyers.

The assessment of traffic of prospective buyers dropped to 32 from 39.

In such a tough environment, will Auctionworld's would-be buyers be put off by its tainted reputation?

And some agents may not be prepared to give the cheapest tickets to overseas buyers.

Parental guidance First-time buyers whose income is too low can ask their parents to act as guarantors.

More important, trade buyers are happy to compete directly with venture capitalists.