Someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity

Usage examples of supplier.

Added to that was the hassle of cajoling, browbeating or begging suppliers for their customer lists.

Only recently had the board asked the vice chair of the obstetrics department to attend the meetings and then just as a supplier of information, not as a voting member.

It was all corporate land here, manicured to expensive perfection in front of the identical blocks of flats and houses bought from the same prefab supplier, allowed to go to an approximation of wilderness in the ditch that separated the access road from the feeder and the overarching flyway.

Apparently, the clinic was suspected of any number of violations, from overpaying our suppliers to submitting false or inflated claims for services.

I chewed the inside of my cheek and used the kitchen phone to reconfirm with Alicia, my supplier.

Not a single seminarian was simple enough to believe in a voluntary resignation, not from a post that offered so many contacts with large suppliers.

One was middle-aged, fat, unctuous and swordless, Kinu, their silk supplier.

Because my own network people have already cleaned house on my holding company, my Bangalore suppliers, those Chinese rocket people, and all of my e-commerce interests.

While George bought booties from one of the very few suppliers in the lower forty-eight, he too participated in the bootie collect-and- try game.

When it comes to explaining the presence of those drugs themselves, blame is still not placed on American consumers, but on the foreign suppliers who grow the stuff.

Baldwin said that Folsom seemed to have been juggling his accounts, in cahoots with a supplier of cardboard.

Ethan was at last, after much debate, given broad discretionary powers to choose another supplier on the basis of the freshest information available at Kline Station.

These external suppliers let other companies move faster and serve a wider range of markets as well.

And outsourcing reduces costs by forcing suppliers to compete for contracts.

Wal-Mart is able to roll back prices because of the new efficiencies continuously being created by its high-tech distribution system, which minutely tracks everything from power tools to pretzels as they travel from supplier to distribution center to store at a pace no other retailer can match.