e-tailer

noun

as in retailer

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Recent Examples of e-tailer Net-a-Porter deliveries are set to face delays as 100 workers at the luxury womenswear e-tailer’s southeast London distribution center prepare to walk out for two days starting Wednesday. — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 20 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for e-tailer
  1. retailer
  2. wholesaler
  3. distributor
  4. reseller
  5. discounter
  6. seller
  7. vendor
  8. exporter
Noun
  • Forward-looking brands and retailers are drawing up blueprints for the next demographic frontier — the tiniest tots born between 2025 and 2039.
    — Faye Brookman, Footwear News, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The big-box retailer has also benefited from wealthier consumers’ trading down as Americans tighten their budgets.
    — Kayla Steinberg, NBC news, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of retailer
Noun
  • As Taylor Farms deals with the fallout from the cyclospora outbreak, the California vegetable wholesaler had to issue a recall of food products with jalapeño peppers from Walmart, Kroger, Target and other large chains.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The mortgage wholesaler sent a letter dated July 16 to the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie and Freddie, urging the agency to modify or postpone the changes.
    — Sarah Agostino, CNBC, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of wholesaler
Noun
  • The film played on just one screen at the Angelika in NYC and made $41,104, which the distributor said gives it a PSA that places seventh all-time for documentaries.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 19 Aug. 2026
  • That retail price isn’t set at the same time a fuel distributor purchases home heating oil at one of the terminals spread across Connecticut.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of distributor
Noun
  • Bitsight also raised the possibility that an original equipment distributor, reseller or custom firmware provider added the apps before the boxes reached consumers.
    — Jesse Watson , Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The City of Pittsburgh requires an annual ticket-reseller license for anyone reselling tickets connected to events at PNC Park, PPG Paints Arena or Acrisure Stadium, still referred to as Heinz Field in the city code.
    — Gabby Sartori, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of reseller
Noun
  • Spirit, the pioneering discounter, permanently shut down operations on May 2 after failing to secure a federal government bailout.
    — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2026
  • Barneys New York ranks as one of retail’s greatest makeovers — transforming from a menswear discounter in the ’60s into a chic and irreverent enclave for luxury fashion.
    — David Moin, Footwear News, 11 June 2026
Definition of discounter
Noun
  • At least two San Francisco home listings seen by CNN this spring said the sellers would consider accepting shares of OpenAI or Anthropic as payment.
    — Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Hundreds of thousands of individual sellers have lost their merchandise, sending shock waves across Russia’s economy.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of seller
Noun
  • Cartmell, who worked with the vender who made the Costanza bobblehead, explained the multistep process.
    — Bruce Handy, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Needa Bee, a co-founder of the collective, said the group represents 89 vendors.
    — Da Lin, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of vendor
Noun
  • During the spring, the United States became the world’s largest oil exporter and briefly became a net exporter of crude oil for the first time since World War II.
    — Jason Bordoff, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Russia, the world's largest wheat exporter, and Ukraine, also a major agricultural exporter, have been attacking each other's export facilities and infrastructure in the Black Sea area in recent weeks, sending global wheat prices higher.
    — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of exporter

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“E-tailer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/e-tailer. Accessed 21 Aug. 2026.

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