purchaser

C2+ Topic:People & Society

US /ˈpɝtʃəsɚ/ UK /ˈpɜːtʃəsə/ See IPA manual

noun

Meanings

1

noun
a person who buys something; a buyer

The purchaser is responsible for the shipping costs.

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Synonyms

1 noun · a person who buys... buyer customer client consumer shopper vendee

Opposites

seller vendor supplier

Word family

Related forms purchase purchasable purchasing

Etymology

From purchase + -er; purchase comes from Anglo-French purchaser, Old French porchacier ('to seek to obtain'), from por- ('forth') + chacier ('to chase').

porchacier Old French pro Middle English captiare Latin

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# purchaser

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** ˈpɝtʃəsɚ
**IPA (UK):** ˈpɜːtʃəsə

## Meanings
1. a person who buys something; a buyer

## Examples
- The purchaser is responsible for the shipping costs.

## Synonyms
- buyer
- customer
- client
- consumer
- shopper
- vendee

## Antonyms
- seller
- vendor
- supplier

## Related Forms
- purchase
- purchasable
- purchasing

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: porchacier
- Root: pro
- Root: captiare

## Etymology
From purchase + -er; purchase comes from Anglo-French purchaser, Old French porchacier ('to seek to obtain'), from por- ('forth') + chacier ('to chase').

## AI Etymology
Purchaser comes from purchase + -er; purchase comes from Anglo-French purchaser, Old French porchacier ('to seek to obtain'), from por- ('forth') + chacier ('to chase'). The historical trail runs through Old French porchacier, Latin pro and Latin captiare. Morphologically, the surface form is analyzable into prefixes, suffixes, compounds, or participial endings that carry part of the history. In modern use it means a person who buys something; a buyer. Related forms include purchase, purchasable, purchasing.

## Topics
- People & Society
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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