SUPPLIER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does supplier mean? 

• SUPPLIER (noun)
  The noun SUPPLIER has 1 sense:

1. someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity

  Familiarity information: SUPPLIER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPPLIER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

provider; supplier

Hypernyms ("supplier" is a kind of...):

bourgeois; businessperson (a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "supplier"):

black marketeer (someone who engages illegally in trade in scarce or controlled commodities)

caterer (someone who provides food and service (as for a party))

connection (a supplier (especially of narcotics))

dispenser (a person who dispenses)

distributer; distributor (someone who markets merchandise)

purveyor (someone who supplies provisions (especially food))

recruiter (someone who supplies members or employees)

stockist (one (as a retailer or distributor) that stocks goods)

provisioner; sutler; victualer; victualler (a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army)

Derivation:

supply (give something useful or necessary to)

 Context examples 

Well, that is a list of my town suppliers.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Your water supplier must give you annual reports on drinking water.

(Drinking Water, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Nafovanny is the largest captive breeder and supplier of cynomolgus monkeys to the biomedical research community.

(Cynomolgus Maritius Monkey, NCI Thesaurus)

A developer, supplier and distributor of reagents and assays for biopharmaceutical and academic research.

(BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus)

We see that as a really exciting opportunity to decarbonize the transport sector, but also position Australia as one of the lead suppliers of hydrogen around the world.

(Cars Powered by New Fuel Type Tested in Australia, VOA)

A further nine products were taken off the shelf after the suppliers chose to withdraw local sales rather than provide information to the TGA.

(Numerous home pregnancy tests recalled after false negative results reported, Wikinews)

If a large supplier or customer owes you money, you may find it challenging to secure what is rightfully yours, perhaps because the other party is not paying and not communicating, either.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Alone, I should have been ignorant of the names of these giant growths, but our men of science pointed out the cedars, the great silk cotton trees, and the redwood trees, with all that profusion of various plants which has made this continent the chief supplier to the human race of those gifts of Nature which depend upon the vegetable world, while it is the most backward in those products which come from animal life.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Here you are, ‘Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.’”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)