English > supplier: 1 sense > noun 1, person Meaning | someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity. |
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Synonym | provider |
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Narrower | black marketeer | someone who engages illegally in trade in scarce or controlled commodities |
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caterer | someone who provides food and service (as for a party) |
connection | A supplier (especially of narcotics) |
dispenser | A person who dispenses |
distributor, distributer | someone who markets merchandise |
purveyor | someone who supplies provisions / provisions (especially food) |
recruiter | someone who supplies members or employees |
stockist | One (as a retailer or distributor / distributor) that stocks goods |
sutler, victualer, victualler, provisioner | A supplier of victuals or supplies to an army |
Broader | businessperson, bourgeois | A capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise |
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Spanish | abastecedor, aprovisionador, asentista, proveedora, proveedor, suministrador |
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Catalan | abastador, proveïdor, provisor, subministrador |
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Verbs | supply | give something useful or necessary to |
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