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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stationer
noun
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▪ Court forms can be purchased from law stationers, but most of these can be stored on your word-processing system as precedents.
▪ Forms may be obtained from the court and from the usual legal stationers.
▪ However, while charities can benefit from cards sold by stationers, they may retain a substantial amount of money.
▪ They come in all sizes, designs and colours and are available from stationers, specialist suppliers and some debt collecting agencies.
▪ Two later works reflected Sparke's professional concerns as a stationer.
▪ We get our supplies from our computer dealer, so you could try there or a good office stationer.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stationer

Stationer \Sta"tion*er\ (-[~e]r), n. [Cf. Stationary, a.]

  1. A bookseller or publisher; -- formerly so called from his occupying a stand, or station, in the market place or elsewhere. [Obs.]
    --Dryden.

  2. One who sells paper, pens, quills, inkstands, pencils, blank books, and other articles used in writing.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stationer

"book-dealer, seller of books and paper," early 14c. (late 13c. as a surname), from Medieval Latin stationarius "tradesman who sells from a station or shop," noun use of Latin stationarius (see stationary). Roving peddlers were the norm in the Middle Ages; sellers with a fixed location often were bookshops licensed by universities; hence the word acquired a more specific sense than its etymological one.

Wiktionary
stationer

n. A person or business that sells stationery.

WordNet
stationer

n. a merchant who sells writing materials and office supplies [syn: stationery seller]

Usage examples of "stationer".

Fleet went it alone, without merchanter or stationer support, as they had gone it alone for years before this.

The militarized crews demanded merchanter privileges and access to bars, against some stationer authorities who tried to put them under military discipline.

The next stationer officer who went out with the patrols was looking to get his throat cut.

He felt sick inside, stationer, out of generations of stationers, who had never asked for war.

Comp was quietly carrying out a card-use search, not an easy matter, for merchanter passes were not in such frequent use as stationer cards.

She half turned the cushion, averted her eyes momentarily to the screens and glanced back again, at the incredible presence of a Unioner and a stationer loose on her deck.

There were three checks from the initial position to the line: once while the equipment was being stripped down, a second when the stationer stevedores took charge, and a third when it was ready to go over the line itself.

The civilians looking among the stationer dead were nearly as quiet, only a few sobbing faintly.

But she seemed to invite him to hold her hand, brushing close as they walked and when he did slip his hand around hers, her fingers were chaste and cold and listless, making him ask himself was this the way Stationer Family girls were, or had he just made a wrong, unwelcome move?

He, the stationer, he decided to take the long way back to the galley, and to go all the way around the ring.

This was fortunate, as the Stationer coveralls Quinn had brought him to wear over his Athosian clothes were bright red.

The first two were easy enough, but what was it that marked a downsider in Stationer eyes?

Quinn had dropped behind several times, or parked him abruptly in some cul-de-sac while she scouted ahead, or once wandered off quite casual-seeming, her arm draped across the shoulders of some uniformed Stationer acquaintance as she gesticulated gaily with her free hand.

Commander Quinn is entertaining a handsome Stationer acquaintance in her room, at length.

He found a fresh beer and a tray of edibles, anonymous Stationer tidbits, ready to hand.