as in vendors
a person or business that has been given the right to sell something on property owned by someone else
The stadium's concessionaires sell all sorts of food, including everything from hot dogs to sushi.
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Recent Examples of concessionaires
The rent the two master concessionaires will be paying the airport is structured as percentage rent — more specifically, 10% of food sales, 12% for alcohol and 18% for any retail merchandise.
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Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2025
Food is everywhere at the Wilson County – Tennessee State Fair with more than 100 concessionaires, contests and extras that encourage guests to come with an appetite.
—Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 15 Aug. 2025
Food and drink concessionaires, professional caterers, event planners — any purveyor that’s not a restaurant, food truck, flea market stall or food hall vendor — are also excluded from the roundup.
—Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025
Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2025
Food is everywhere at the Wilson County – Tennessee State Fair with more than 100 concessionaires, contests and extras that encourage guests to come with an appetite.
—Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 15 Aug. 2025
Food and drink concessionaires, professional caterers, event planners — any purveyor that’s not a restaurant, food truck, flea market stall or food hall vendor — are also excluded from the roundup.
—Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for concessionaires
Noun
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Their margins are slimmer, their supply chains less diverse and their negotiating power with vendors dampened by the smaller sizes of their orders.—
Gabrielle Fonrouge,
CNBC,
17 Oct. 2025
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To review or object to instances where our partners assert a legitimate interest in utilizing your data, please visit our vendors page.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
17 Oct. 2025
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Michael Steinberg, a landscaper and owner of a nursery business who became one of the nation’s top department store merchants for two-and-a-half decades, passed away on Saturday following a long illness.—
David Moin,
Footwear News,
20 Oct. 2025
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For now, there’s decent money in it for slop merchants.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
20 Oct. 2025
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High demand and low inventory means the market still favors sellers.—
Francesca Pica,
jsonline.com,
20 Oct. 2025
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To make matters worse, there have been a ton of rumors regarding the Dolphins potentially being huge sellers at the trade deadline.—
James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Oct. 2025
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“Concessionaires.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concessionaires. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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