Meaning

1 senses
  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.

    Großhändler

    оптови́кoptovík

More definitions
  • someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers

Examples

8 sentences
  1. The wholesalers might try to back out of the deal.

  2. It's almost always cheaper to buy things from a wholesaler.

  3. It's almost always less expensive to buy things from a wholesaler.

  4. Tom is a prescription drug wholesaler.

  5. Tom is a wholesaler of toys for ferrets.

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
person or company that sells goods wholesale to retailers:

Origin

From wholesale + -er.

From wholesale + -er.

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Forms

plural: wholesalers
Singularwholesaler
Pluralwholesalers

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers:jobber

Word family

1 related words
Relatedwholesale

See also

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