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n. (plural of supplier English)
Usage examples of "suppliers".
The government imposed price ceilings on basic food commodities as a means to forestall skyrocketing prices, but many wholesale suppliers disregarded the ceilings and demanded higher prices anyway.
I can also give you the names of a few suppliers and some mall-order companies.
I can help you check out herb suppliers, interview Reverend Walters, even introduce you to my friend, Harry Flynn.
She would be invaluable in checking out herb suppliers and interviewing this guy Walters.
There are probably about two dozen suppliers, but I would guess only about eight deal in whole herbs.
Flynn Concluded by again stating that he thought interviewing herb suppliers was a waste of time.
Flynn or any of the suppliers to start running scared and begin removing any herbs from the premises.
THEY DREW BLANKS with the first two suppliers, as well as with the third.
And if the documentation the suppliers had produced was to be believed, they were all strictly sanitary and aboveboard.
And another fifty thousand lose their jobs, when our suppliers go belly up in Georgia, Ohio, Texas, and Connecticut.
With the exception of actually raising its own cattle and growing its own grain for the buns, White Castle achieved almost complete vertical integration-or independence from other suppliers and industries-by becoming its own primary supplier.
Once again, rather than relying on outside suppliers, Ingram secured patents on his revolutionary new clothing and opened still another factory.
First, it became increasingly difficult for company bakers and meat suppliers to deliver provisions to the Castles on a dependable basis.
Even more frustrating for White Castle than these actual shortages were the suppliers who profited from them.
White Castle, in turn, had to observe these price ceilings on the retail level while still paying inflated prices to many of its suppliers, consistently taking losses just to have food to sell.