Definition of "purchasers" []

• Plural form of purchaser. (noun)

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• "Tim Pawlenty's (R) health care system reform plan is "a nationally important and unique public-private partnership -- the first such effort combining the market strength of all the main purchasers of health care in a state to push through needed reforms and improve the efficiency and quality of medical services," David Broder writes in a Washington Post column."
• "I'd have thought that the recession might encourage people to offload books onto the second hand market, but I guess the downturn in purchasers 'available resources has a bigger impact."
• "The main purchasers, she says, are people with coeliac disease (an inability to digest gluten) or intolerance to wheat or gluten."