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The one with the money, and therefore the one with the power.
means A person who purchases goods or services, or who is in the act of acquiring something with money.
from From "buy," tracing back to Old English "bycgan," meaning to purchase or pay for. The "-er" ending is the everyday English agent suffix that turns an action into the person who does it — bake becomes baker, write becomes writer, buy becomes buyer. The Old English root has Germanic relatives, though it sits a little apart from the words other Germanic languages settled on for buying, leaving its deeper ancestry somewhat murky.
- Latin root
- From an old word meaning to bend or yield
- Remorse
- Buyer's regret has its own named psychological effect
- Corporate role
- Big retailers hire pro buyers who never sell
- Caveat
- Caveat emptor warns the buyer to beware
- Auctions
- Silent buyers signal bids with tiny secret gestures
berkshire hathaway — warren buffett's company that bought apple stock, bank of america, and bnsf railway for billions
elon musk — bought twitter for $44 billion in 2022
saudi public investment fund — pif bought newcastle united football club for £300 million in 2021