A person who buys.

synonyms: emptor, purchaser, vendee.

Roget 799a: stock market, stock exchange, securities exchange; bourse, board; the big board, the New York Stock Exchange; the market, the open market; over-the-counter market; privately traded issues.    commodities exchange, futures exchange, futures market.    the pit, the floor.    ticker, stock ticker, quotation; stock index, market index, the Dow Jones Index, the Dow Industrials, the transportation index, utilities, the utilities index; the New York Stock Exchange index, the Nikkei index [Jap.Tr.]; the Financial Times index, the FTI [Brit.], the over-the-counter index, NASDAQ index.    [person or firm trading securities] broker, stockbroker, jobber, stock dealer, odd-lot dealer; specialist.    [person who buys or sells stocks] investor, speculator, operator; bull, buyer; bear, short seller; scalper, arbitrager^†, arbitrageur^†; stockholder, share-holder, stockholder of record; bond holder, coupon-clipper [Sarc.].    investment; speculation.    ... show more

Roget 795: purchase, emption^†; buying, purchasing, shopping; preemption, refusal.    coemption^†, bribery; slave trade.    buyer, purchaser, emptor, vendee; patron, employer, client, customer, clientele.    ... show more

Roget 797: merchant, trader, dealer, monger, chandler, salesman; changer; regrater^†; shopkeeper, shopman^†; tradesman, tradespeople, tradesfolk.    retailer; chapman, hawker, huckster, higgler^†; pedlar, colporteur, cadger, Autolycus^†; sutler^†, vivandiere^†; costerman^†, costermonger^†; tallyman; camelot; faker; vintner.    money broker, money changer, money lender; cambist^†, usurer, moneyer^†, banker.    jobber; broker etc. (agent) 758; buyer etc. 795; seller etc. 796; bear, bull.    concern; firm etc. (partnership) 712.    ... show more

Dutch: Vendee, aankoper, koper, inkoper, afnemer
Polish: kupiec