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Answer for the clue "Someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers ", 6 letters:
jobber

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) One who works by the job and recruit other people(as in the 19th Century). 2 (context business English) An intermediary who buys and sells merchandise. 3 (context US business English) A type of intermediary in the apparel ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Jobber may refer to: Athletics A professional wrestler who routinely loses a match - see Job (professional wrestling) Wichita Jobbers, a minor league baseball team in the Western Association from 1905 to 1911 Commerce A person or corporation that engages ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But if the independent jobber happened to be on the County Planning Commission, the bill was promptly paid in full. ▪ By 1985 nearly all the main broking firms and jobbers had linked up with financial institutions, both domestic ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers [syn: middleman , wholesaler ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who does odd jobs," 1706, agent noun from job .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jobber \Job"ber\, n. One who works by the job. A dealer in the public stocks or funds; a stockjobber. One who buys goods from importers, wholesalers, or manufacturers, and sells to retailers. One who turns official or public business to private advantage; ...

Usage examples of jobber.

But owing to the stupid money system, which these laborers them selves help to keep in force, the results of their combined efforts were either usurped by an unproductive class fortunate enough to be born rich, or those shrewd enough to accumulate money, such as trust managers, bankers, real estate speculators, stock jobbers, and brokers, gamblers, burglars, money loan swindlers, high salaried clergymen, etc.

Importers must incur the expense of handling and reselling before the product is ready for the jobbers.

Like the jobbers who flocked to the Moon and the Maldives when Lunar City and the Skyhook had to be built .

The architects had promptly fed them to the construction jobbers so the raw materials could be reworked into a place Humans would be comfortable with.

They had found maintenance jobbers in the corridors and ordered them to repair the wiring and cut apart the booby traps.

Keale had sealed off most of the voice commands to everyone but the crew, but jobbers answered anyone.

He will not buy of the home jobbers at the same price, for he feels that he is building up his competitor.

I have seen a great many jobbers who had spent time and money trying to get control of all the trade in their own city, but I never saw one who did not finally give up in disgust.

Every little cross-roads store had its 5 and 10 cent counters, and manufacturers and jobbers cut in prices to cater to it.

The decline is made to a few jobbers, and they at once start out their men to give it to the retailers, and to use it as a bait, and when other jobbers learn it they combine to squeeze the price down so that all can get it.

Morris and I took dinner at the hotel where the trio of government jobbers were stopping.

Balfour made plain in an admirable speech, whether the great occasions of the peace and after the peace are to be handled by a grand council of all that is best and most leaderlike in the nation, or whether they are to be left to a few leaders, apparently leading, but really profoundly swayed by the obscure crowd of politicians and jobbers behind them.

Soon sheds were added to the Limb-side Inns, serving as Depots for the Jobbers who buy direct from the Bud.

The members who composed it were, seven-eighths of them, office-holders, office-seekers, pimps, malignants, conspirators, murderers, fancy-men, custom-house clerks, contractors, kept-editors, spaniels well-train’d to carry and fetch, jobbers, infidels, disunionists, terrorists, mail-riflers, slave-catchers, pushers of slavery, creatures of the President, creatures of would-be Presidents, spies, blowers, electioneerers, bawlers, bribers, compromisers, lobbyers, sponges, ruined sports, expell’d gamblers, policy-backers, monte-dealers, duelists, carriers of conceal’d weapons, deaf’ men, pimpled men, scarr’d inside with vile disease, gaudy outside with gold chains made from the people’s money and harlot’s money twisted together.

And, that none of the middle or upper class may escape, the edict subjects to special rigor, supplementary taxes, and arbitrary arrest, not alone property-holders and fund-holders, but again all persons designated under the following heads, - aristocrats, Feuillants, moderates, Girondists, federalists, muscadins, the superstitious, fanatics the abettors of royalism, of superstition and of federation, monopolists, jobbers, egoists, "suspects " of incivism, and, generally, all who are indifferent to the Revolution, of which local committees are to draw up the lists.