How to say "buyer" in Japanese

• 買い手かいてCommon
  nounThe general word for the buying party in a sale, viewed as the opposite of the seller. Typical in descriptions of market conditions, e.g. that buyers are hard to find for a product.
  有望ゆうぼうな買い手かいては、契約内容けいやくないようをよく理解りかいできませんでした。↗

  Prospective buyers couldn't make heads or tails out of the contract.
• バイヤーCommon
  nounA buyer as an occupation or role: the person who purchases goods on behalf of a store or company. Use this for professional buyers in retail and trading, not for the buyer in an ordinary one-off sale.
  インドのバイヤーと日本にっぽんのビジネスマンは新製品しんせいひんの値あたいをめぐって激はげしいやりとりをした。↗

  An Indian buyer and a Japanese businessman haggled over the price of the new product.
• 買い主かいぬしCommon
  nounThe purchaser in a specific transaction, especially in legal or formal contexts such as contracts and property sales. It identifies the buyer as a party to a particular deal.
• 買い方かいかたCommon
  nounA purchaser in a transaction, similar in use to 買い主. Common in business and legal language for the party that buys, as in documentation of sales and purchases.
• 消費者しょうひしゃCommon
  nounPrimarily means the consumer or end user of products and services. Its gloss includes buyer, but it is the word you want when discussing consumers in general, not the buyer in a particular sale.
  米国べいこくにおいて「リベート」は、主おもにメーカーが消費者しょうひしゃに直接ちょくせつ提供ていきょうするインセンティブ手段しゅだんとして広ひろく認識にんしきされている。↗

  In America 'rebate' is widely recognized, generally as an incentive where makers give back directly to consumers.

Use 「買い手」 for the buyer as the counterpart of a seller, 「バイヤー」 for a professional buyer such as a store purchaser, 「買い主」 or 「買い方」 in transactional or contractual contexts, and 消費者 when the emphasis is on the consumer or end user rather than the buyer in a specific transaction.

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• 買い手かいてbuyer
• バイヤーbuyer
• 買い主かいぬしbuyer
• 買い方かいかたbuyer
• 消費者しょうひしゃconsumer (of a product, service, etc.)
• 購買者こうばいしゃbuyer
• 買い子かいこbuyer (person employed to purchase goods for someone else)
• 購読者こうどくしゃsubscriber
• 買いかいbuyer