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FTB

FTB is the initialism 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.

Forms of FTB

pluralFTBs

Questions about FTB

What is FTB the initialism of?
FTB is the initialism of first-time buyer.

Words near FTB in the dictionary

  1. ft-lbs
  2. ft.
  3. FTA
  4. FTAA
  5. FTAs
  6. FTB
  7. FTBFS
  8. FTBs
  9. FTC
  10. FTD
  11. FTDs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: FTB (page history and authors); first-time buyer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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