† forebuyern.
Obsolete.
One who buys at first hand to sell again, a wholesale buyer.
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society > trade and finance > trader > agent or broker > [noun] > middleman > buying up for resale or monopoly
regratorc1390
forestaller14..
regraterc1400
engrosserc1460
grey merchant1542
grosser?1542
forebuyer1558
ingrater1583
market-monger1629
pin-hooker1885
mailer1950
switch dealer1967
1558 in J. R. Boyle & F. W. Dendy Extracts Rec. Merchant Adventurers Newcastle (1895) I. 88 Woll and skynnes, bought of any glovers or forebyers.
1559 in J. R. Boyle & F. W. Dendy Extracts Rec. Merchant Adventurers Newcastle (1895) I. 48 An acte concernyng the byeng of wooll..of for-byers..Men that byes it of other men that growes it, callyde forbyers.
1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione at Regrateris That they are fore-byars of quheate, beare, aites [etc.].
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