WHOLESALER (wholesaler)

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Irregular inflected form: wholesaler   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does wholesaler mean? 

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

1. someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHOLESALER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

jobber; middleman; wholesaler

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

distributer; distributor (someone who markets merchandise)

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

meat packer; packer (a wholesaler in the meat-packing business)

Derivation:

wholesale (sell in large quantities)