核心畫面

The side of a deal that hands over the money. Sometimes that side is you, spending what is yours; sometimes it is a person paid to be that side, week after week, for a shop or a factory.

可以想成一筆交易的兩端:一邊交出東西,一邊交出錢。buyer 就是出錢的那一端。這個畫面本身很簡單,變化只來自一個問更多收起可以想成一筆交易的兩端:一邊交出東西,一邊交出錢。buyer 就是出錢的那一端。這個畫面本身很簡單,變化只來自一個問題——那筆錢是誰的。花自己的錢,就是買方;如果替公司天天做這件事,同一個位置就變成一份職業。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary gives the word as buy plus the agent suffix -er, the same -er that makes teacher and driver. So it literally names the one who buys.

Wiktionary 記的組成是 buy 加上表示「做這件事的人」的 -er,跟 teacher、driver 裡的是同一個字尾。所以這個字字面上就是「買的那個人」,這也正好解釋了為什麼它既能指一筆交易裡的買方,也能當成一份職稱。

Wiktionary (kaikki extract) entry 'buyer', etymology 'From buy + -er', source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:400844329:67615, supplied in the evidence packet

One branch

出錢的那一方,以及以此為業的人

同一個位置,差別只在那筆錢是自己的還是公司的。

noun · B1

The person who buys something, especially something big and expensive such as a house, a car or a business. The buyer is the side that pays; the seller is the side that hands the thing over.

買方、買家