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first-time buyers

first-time buyers is the plural of first-time buyer.

Meaning of first-time buyer

Noun

first-time buyer (plural first-time buyers)

  1. A person purchasing a house for the first time, as opposed to one who already owns a house and is selling it in order to buy another.
    • Of course, closure of the West station took away the hotel's raison d'être. In May 2012, the local newspaper reported that this historic hotel, by then rated the town's worst (exemplified by its final review: "Please avoid at all costs"), was to be converted into 31 first-time-buyer one-bedroom...2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Bournemouth (circa 1880)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 60
  2. A person who purchases something for the first time.

Questions about first-time buyers

What is first-time buyers the plural of?
First-time buyers is the plural of first-time buyer.

Words near first-time buyers in the dictionary

  1. first-stringers
  2. first-teamer
  3. first-teamers
  4. first-time
  5. first-time buyer
  6. first-time buyers
  7. first-timer
  8. first-timers
  9. first-wave feminism
  10. first-waver
  11. first-wavers

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