buyer

noun

1. A person who makes one or more purchases.

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

   “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.”

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