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Supplier

noun

Someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity. Synonym: provider.

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"Supplier" Quotes from Famous Books

... alcohol, when it is taken into the body, reduces the animal temperature, is full of the most important suggestions. The fact shows that alcohol does not in any sense act as a supplier of vital heat as is commonly supposed, and that it does not prevent the loss of heat as those imagine 'who take just a drop to keep out the cold,' It shows, on the contrary, that cold and alcohol, in ...

— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce

... first to press steam into the active service of mankind. By the genius of Watt and his successors, a power, before destructive and uncontrollable, has been rendered the mighty agent of man's will, the supplier of his wants, and the minister of his convenience. Through their inventions, steam has become, as it were, the breath, the life, of a noble animal of man's creation, untiring in its ceaseless labours, irresistible in ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 - Vol. 53, January, 1843 • Various

Words linked to "Supplier" : provisioner, purveyor, black marketeer, sutler, stockist, distributor, victualler, recruiter, connection, victualer, bourgeois, businessperson, caterer, dispenser, supply, distributer