Crossword clues for supplier
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
supplier
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ The agenda for public debate about defence issues is increasingly shaped by the activities of the Pentagon's biggest arms' suppliers.
▪ It is a big supplier of recipe dishes and desserts to the supermarkets.
▪ The federal and state government water projects are the two biggest suppliers in California.
▪ The big essential oil suppliers stock a bewildering array of essences.
▪ One clue is that California, the biggest supplier of walnuts, will not contract to supply whole halves.
component
▪ In April a crisis loomed. Component suppliers decided to stop making deliveries unless they were paid.
▪ These should be available from most good component suppliers and are certainly listed in the Maplin catalogue.
▪ Groups resulting from a parent manufacturer establishing a pyramid of subcontractors and component suppliers.
▪ And the latest move could lead to a further 1,500 jobs going among component suppliers.
foreign
▪ Business Deals - Drawing up contracts with foreign suppliers or customers, and taking account of the customs regulations in transportation.
▪ There are more direct connections between London gangs and their foreign suppliers.
▪ To compete with Moscow they must also be able to deal direct with foreign suppliers.
independent
▪ Forcing independent gas suppliers to respond to gas leaks reported to them.
▪ As a producer and processor of organic products, Dirk is a successful and independent supplier of the current market demand.
▪ The Secretary of State can insist upon changes to any plans that do not make sufficient use of independent suppliers.
large
▪ Is the world's largest supplier of branded spirits for the duty free market.
▪ Other limiting factors include unions, large customers and suppliers, and government.
▪ What the manufacturer / retailer needs is a larger supplier base in order to be more competitive.
▪ In each period, on each island there are a large number of suppliers and demanders.
leading
▪ Morton was also a pioneer in coil coatings and its industrial coating group is a leading supplier.
▪ Two new products promise to make it the world's leading supplier to the diet food industry.
▪ Overall these efforts will consolidate Johnson Matthey's position as a leading supplier of high-technology materials.
▪ I have tried all the leading suppliers of seat covers and they are unable to help me.
local
▪ If you want to control the vogue for greed and exploitation, then start using local suppliers.
▪ Even local suppliers win contracts with the multi-national corporations.
▪ There's no greater pleasure than handing over money to a local supplier who helps make life easier.
▪ Our local supplier of beer-and winemaking supplies provided me with an extra dark malt crystal.
▪ I can get a local supplier to construct something very similar to design 5.6.
▪ Developing local suppliers -- a major government goal -- could also be difficult.
▪ It also had to tackle the challenge of ensuring international oil operators knew of the capabilities of local suppliers.
▪ Your local computer supplier may be the first place to visit.
main
▪ This was easily adopted to bore engine cylinders, and Wilkinson became Boulton &038; Watt's main cylinder supplier.
▪ Mr Souster said directors blamed poor financial performance on high investment and problems with one of Cartesia's main suppliers.
▪ George has spent several years working for one of Office Cleaning's main suppliers prior to joining Rentokil.
major
▪ Many software houses sell consultancy, and disappointing product sales from 1988-91 have driven the major hardware suppliers into the services market.
▪ One major supplier, Ig-Lo, has stopped accepting orders for this season.
▪ The company is a major supplier of marine fuels in the port of Aberdeen.
▪ Change of control provisions Contracts with the company's major suppliers or customers may have change of control provisions.
▪ It is a wonderful opportunity to see the major suppliers and decide on the lists you want to consider.
▪ However, one of their major local suppliers, B.D.B., are confident they will be able to help.
other
▪ But it will only work if further orders are required and other suppliers are not readily available.
▪ In other circumstances another supplier may have prevailed.
▪ It is an offer that no other coal supplier at home or abroad can make.
▪ It has to keep its own prices down so that it can compete with other major electricity suppliers.
▪ More so even than the ethnographers, philologists and other suppliers of ethnic and national services who have usually also been mobilised.
▪ It believes it can quickly make up ground on other Unix suppliers.
outside
▪ Transaction costs have encouraged firms to expand their own internal capacity in preference to extensive reliance on outside suppliers.
▪ Some downsizing was simply a shift to outside suppliers.
▪ Finally, there is the danger that once an organisation disbands its own workforce it may be exploited by monopolistic outside suppliers.
▪ The foundry was allowed to go to pot in the seventies and Pringle's started purchasing from outside suppliers.
▪ That was the money he had had to lay out to pay his outside suppliers.
▪ Desktop full colour publishing will remove the need for many organisations to use outside suppliers.
potential
▪ It also claims that the audit is an aid to the company, its bankers, potential suppliers and tax inspectors.
▪ To do this, the estimator must initiate inquiries for price information from potential suppliers.
▪ Finally, evaluate each potential supplier critically.
▪ If a cheaper potential supplier is discovered, a firm contract between the parties may be signed.
▪ Similarly with public goods: there may be many potential suppliers of television broadcasts, but funding them presents a problem.
▪ Competitive tender Always obtain three prices before short-listing a potential supplier and do not forget to squeeze them for discounts.
small
▪ Bankruptcies, especially among the big firms' small suppliers, are at a record.
▪ This is especially true when you have a small supplier or company dealing with a much bigger company.
▪ The small supplier firm will often be located near to the big firm, and will be expected to provide supplies on demand.
▪ At the same time, larger companies may take advantage of smaller suppliers by delaying payment.
▪ The small supplier would then not be in the hands of his bank.
▪ Some major companies build this relationship by offering engineering and manufacturing guidance on modern manufacturing methods to smaller suppliers.
▪ But smaller suppliers will be unable to compete for such large-scale business.
▪ The rivalry promoted between large companies has its reflection in fierce competition between small suppliers for orders from parent companies.
■ NOUN
equipment
▪ Each of these stages would be examined against records of the client, equipment supplier and main contractor.
▪ Drill bit and equipment supplier Baker Hughes of Houston has hired 1, 100 new workers in the past year.
▪ Stuart Seller has been promoted to the post of service supervisor at Washington office equipment supplier Comcare.
library
▪ The growth of the library supplier has been a highly significant development of the past 20 years.
▪ Finally some library suppliers have built up databases of books which can be addressed online by library clients.
▪ The library suppliers maintain showrooms with large stocks, from which visiting librarians may select.
▪ Publishers' announcements and lists from library suppliers usually come a month or two in advance of publication.
▪ The library supplier aims to make money.
▪ The distribution system of the library suppliers gives them in this sense a considerable advantage.
software
▪ Target customers include the regional Bell operating companies, independent phone companies, and network software suppliers.
▪ Gates had always had a clear idea of what he wanted to be: the prime software supplier to the world.
■ VERB
ask
▪ The second it to ask the suppliers to provide information on the correlation between different census variables and the various geodemographic systems.
▪ In January 1987, it asked suppliers to increase their productivity by 5% a year, for five years.
▪ And rather than asking for commission from suppliers he often buys the weapons himself and sells them at a profit.
▪ If in doubt, ask the supplier to measure up for you.
become
▪ Furthermore, district health authorities were obliged to become traders rather than simply suppliers of hospital services.
▪ Several Third World countries have themselves become suppliers of small arms for such conflicts.
buy
▪ Businesses can already buy from suppliers in different countries, and exchange costs are marginal.
▪ The new plan would eliminate the mandated middleman and allow retailers to buy directly from suppliers.
▪ There was no doubt that Hari would buy from the same supplier as the Grenfells and what if Hari had an outstanding bill?
▪ A natural target, then: a nationwide monopoly, compelling the public to buy from a single supplier.
▪ It was also made clear to them that their training budget could be used to buy training from any supplier.
▪ Eventually every electricity user will be able to buy from whichever supplier offers the best deal.
lead
▪ Fuel Cells Johnson Matthey is the worlds leading supplier of platinum based catalysts for phosphoric acid fuel cells.
▪ This search leads to customers, suppliers, or competitors.
pay
▪ One of Mr Hammer's favourite examples is Ford's redesign of the procedures it uses to pay its thousands of suppliers.
▪ That was the money he had had to lay out to pay his outside suppliers.
▪ They are hanging on by refusing to pay suppliers.
▪ In addition, it outlaws retrospective reductions in prices paid to suppliers.
▪ The simplest test of a company's fortunes is to find out how quickly they pay their suppliers.
▪ Here efficiency is increased if a per-unit output subsidy is paid to suppliers, rather than a grant towards input costs.
provide
▪ All bibliographical information provided by suppliers to libraries should be subjected to close scrutiny.
▪ If maintenance is mentioned, details of terms and limitations should also be provided by the supplier.
▪ In a sense, dealing with complaints is one of the after-the-sale services provided by suppliers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ one of the world's biggest suppliers of defense equipment
▪ The company is now the main supplier of educational software to schools.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Alternatively, the customer or supplier may look on the purported transfer as an opportunity to terminate or renegotiate the contract.
▪ Buyers worked closely with suppliers, both new and established, to identify opportunities and develop exciting new Sainsbury brand products.
▪ Major art suppliers offer their own willow charcoals in similar formats.
▪ Materials from the supplier will be ordered only if the production plant can sell its product.
▪ The changes envisaged in the White Paper could lead to a personal social service system dominated by commercial suppliers.
▪ The goal is to link the company and the suppliers and distributors so that payments can be sent and received electronically.
▪ These high profits have a paradoxical effect: They provide a steady incentive for drug suppliers.
▪ To do this, the estimator must initiate inquiries for price information from potential suppliers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Supplier
Supplier \Sup*pli"er\, n. One who supplies.
Wiktionary
supplier
n. One who supplies; a provider.
WordNet
supplier
n. someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity [syn: provider]
Wikipedia
Supplier
Supplier may refer to:
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Manufacturer, uses tools and labour to make things for sale
- Processor (manufacturing), converts a product from one form to another
- Packager (manufacturing), encloses products for distribution, storage, sale, and use
- Distributor (business), the middleman between the manufacturer and retailer
- Wholesaler, sells goods or merchandise to retailers
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Franchised dealership, local franchised distribution
- Drug dealer, supplies illegal drugs
- Merchant, a professional dealing with trade
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.