Wholesaler

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

A person or company that buys merchandise from manufacturers, importers, or distributors and resells the merchandise to retail businesses and to business and institutional end users..

Example Sentences

He observed that a wholesaler who supplied my grandfather with goods continued to advertise the implements of a new game, called "Sphairistike."

Your market gardener is not a well-breeched man, dependant as he is on the imponderables of glut, the inequities of distribution, and the greeds of wholesaler and retailer.

Among wholesalers, voluntary and cooperatives carry a far wider range and number of items in private brands than do unaffiliateds.

The packinghouse usually delivers shrimp to a few regular customers, such as breaders, freezers, canners, or wholesalers of fresh shrimp.

Now it seems parent company Anheuser-Busch is taking steps to help wholesalers who have taken a hit.

Do it Best is a member-owned wholesaler that sells hardware, lumber and other home goods to independent stores.

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• wholesalers

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