WHOLESALER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: wholesaler

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

jobber; middleman; wholesaler

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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)