as in distributor
a person or company that supplies goods or services
paper suppliers They are the biggest supplier of books in the area.
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Recent Examples of supplier
Pursuing them required Fortunato to remind contractors and suppliers of his goals to make sure they're achieved.
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Jeff Brady, NPR, 20 Sep. 2025
The sanctions also seek to block Russia’s access to critical resources for weapons production purchased from suppliers such as China and India.
—Laura Kelly, The Hill, 19 Sep. 2025
Campuses drawing students mostly from India, one of the largest suppliers, are the most vulnerable.
—Jeffrey Selingo, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025
Rationalizing vendor bases can reduce procurement spend while enabling more strategic supplier partnerships.
—Charisma Glassman, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
On the fringes of Cambridge, Deadline spoke with a number of key Channel 4 suppliers who are pulling for Allan.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
Using a proprietary high-bandwidth memory, the company claims to overcome the bottleneck that forced China to rely on US and South Korean suppliers for the chips.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
The port had been unloading aluminum ingots coming up the river from overseas suppliers, but recent tariff increases -- taxes on imports paid by the importer -- slowed that market.
—Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2025
Washington is Taiwan’s main international backer and security guarantor and for decades has been the primary supplier of weapons to Taipei.
—Wayne Chang, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
Jeff Brady, NPR, 20 Sep. 2025
The sanctions also seek to block Russia’s access to critical resources for weapons production purchased from suppliers such as China and India.
—Laura Kelly, The Hill, 19 Sep. 2025
Campuses drawing students mostly from India, one of the largest suppliers, are the most vulnerable.
—Jeffrey Selingo, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025
Rationalizing vendor bases can reduce procurement spend while enabling more strategic supplier partnerships.
—Charisma Glassman, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
On the fringes of Cambridge, Deadline spoke with a number of key Channel 4 suppliers who are pulling for Allan.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
Using a proprietary high-bandwidth memory, the company claims to overcome the bottleneck that forced China to rely on US and South Korean suppliers for the chips.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
The port had been unloading aluminum ingots coming up the river from overseas suppliers, but recent tariff increases -- taxes on imports paid by the importer -- slowed that market.
—Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2025
Washington is Taiwan’s main international backer and security guarantor and for decades has been the primary supplier of weapons to Taipei.
—Wayne Chang, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for supplier
distributor
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Lionsgate Studio Film and television producer and distributor Lionsgate Studio could also go higher.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
12 Sep. 2025
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Action dramedy Code 3 opens on 140+ screens from new distributor Aura Entertainment.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Supplier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supplier. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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