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wholesaler en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From wholesale + -er.

Meanings

1. 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.
   • The packinghouse usually delivers shrimp to a few regular customers, such as breaders, freezers, canners, or wholesalers of fresh shrimp. 1976, USITC Publication - Issue 773, page A-33:
   • Do it Best is a member-owned wholesaler that sells hardware, lumber and other home goods to independent stores. 2024 October 14, Jordan Valinsky, “True Value declares bankruptcy and sells itself to a hardware rival”, in CNN:
   • Now it seems parent company Anheuser-Busch is taking steps to help wholesalers who have taken a hit. 2023 May 22, Brian Flood, “Bud Light buying back unsold, expired beer from wholesalers as sales continue to suffer: report”, in Fox News:
   • He observed that a wholesaler who supplied my grandfather with goods continued to advertise the implements of a new game, called "Sphairistike." 1941, Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn, Come what may: an autobiography, Little, Brown and company, page 7:
   • 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. 1954, Thomas Firbank, Log Hut, page 194:
   • Among wholesalers, voluntary and cooperatives carry a far wider range and number of items in private brands than do unaffiliateds. 1968, Progressive Grocer's Marketing Guidebook, page 13:

Forms

Translations (32)

id pedagang besar (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · cs velkoobchodník (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · nl grossier (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · nb grossist (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · nl groothandelaar (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · ar تَاجِر جُمْلَة (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · pt atacadista (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · sv partihandlare (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · ms pemborong (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · ja 問屋 (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · fi tukkukauppias (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · hu nagykereskedő (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · de Großhändler (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · ga mórdhíoltóir (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · id grosir (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · pl hurtowniczka (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · fr grossiste (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · sv grossist (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · cmn 批發商 /批发商 (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · ru оптови́к (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · tr toptancı (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · es mayorista (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · hi थोक व्यापारी (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · da grossist (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · et hulgimüüja (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · es comerciante mayorista (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · ca majorista (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · nn grossist (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · sv grosshandlare (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · pl hurtownik (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · el χονδρέμπορος (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers) · mi kaihokorau (person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers)