(marketing) The situation where a potential consumer looks for the best good or service in an unfamiliar, expensive, or infrequently-bought category, requiring a great deal of research.

A fluid that dissolves a solid, liquid, or gaseous solute, resulting in a solution. / That which resolves.

(finance) Able to pay all debts as they become due, and having no more liabilities than assets. / Having the power of dissolving; causing solution.

(finance) The state of having enough funds or liquid assets to pay all of one's debts; the state of being solvent.

One who or that which solves.

(chemistry) The separation of the components of a solution by partitioning between immiscible liquids

(business) Having the ability to maintain adequate cash on hand to cover incurred expenses.

plural of solver

plural of solvent

The use, often dangerous, of solvent chemicals, such as industrial solvents and household solvents, for their neuropsychological effect, hallucinogenic, stimulant, or stupefying.