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let the buyer beware

let the buyer beware verb: it is the buyer’s responsibility to ensure the soundness of goods or services prior to their purchase.

Verb

let the buyer beware (third-person singular simple present lets the buyer beware, present participle letting the buyer beware, simple past and past participle let the buyer beware)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) It is the buyer’s responsibility to ensure the soundness of goods or services prior to their purchase.
    • Why ſhould his own error bind him, rather then the others fraud acquit him? Let the buyer beware, ſaith the old Law-beaten termer.1645 March 4, John Milton, “Tetrachordon, or Expoſitions upon the four chief place of Scripture which treat of Marriage, or Nullities in Marriage”, in A Complete Collection of the Hiſtorical...

Forms of let the buyer beware

third-person singular presentlets the buyer beware
present participleletting the buyer beware
past participlelet the buyer beware
pastlet the buyer beware

Origin of let the buyer beware

Calque of Latin caveat ēmptor.

Questions about let the buyer beware

What does let the buyer beware mean?
Let the buyer beware means it is the buyer’s responsibility to ensure the soundness of goods or services prior to their purchase.
What part of speech is let the buyer beware?
Let the buyer beware is a verb.
What is the past tense of let the buyer beware?
The past tense of let the buyer beware is let the buyer beware.

Words near let the buyer beware in the dictionary

  1. let someone hold
  2. let someone loose
  3. let something ride
  4. let something slip
  5. let that sink in
  6. let the buyer beware
  7. let the cat out
  8. let the cat out of the bag
  9. let the cat out the bag
  10. let the chips fall where they may
  11. let the cobbler stick to his last

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