SUPPLIER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity

Synonyms:

provider; supplier

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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)