Buyer vs Byre - What's the difference?
buyer | byre |
A person who makes one or more purchases.
(retailing) A person who purchases items for resale in a retail establishment.
(manufacturing) A person who purchases items consumed or used as components in the manufacture of products.
(chiefly, British) A barn, especially one used for keeping cattle in.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=7 * 1999:' "The visitors came up the narrow road through the forest from the south; they filled the spare-rooms, they bunked out in cow '''byres and barns." — ''Stardust , Neil Gaiman, page 9 (2001 Perennial Edition).
As nouns the difference between buyer and byre
is that buyer is a person who makes one or more purchases while byre is a barn, especially one used for keeping cattle in.buyer
English
Noun
(en noun)- Every person who steps through the door is a potential buyer , so acknowledge their presence.
- The supermarket's new buyer decided to stock a larger range of vegetarian foods.
Synonyms
* (retailing and manufacturing senses) purchasing agentDerived terms
* buyer's remorseAnagrams
* * English agent nounsbyre
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}