wholesaler

Definition

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.

Etymology

From wholesale + -er.

Example Sentences

• "He observed that a wholesaler who supplied my grandfather with goods continued to advertise the implements of a new game, called "Sphairistike.""
• "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."
• "Among wholesalers, voluntary and cooperatives carry a far wider range and number of items in private brands than do unaffiliateds."