Thesaurus results for SUPPLIER

supplier

noun

as in distributor

a person or company that supplies goods or services paper suppliers They are the biggest supplier of books in the area.

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Recent Examples of supplier The Climb ultimately collapsed, owing furious crew and suppliers more than £300,000 ($400,000) in unpaid wages and invoices. —

Jake Kanter, Deadline, 3 June 2026 Last year, Republic National CEO Bob Hendrickson said the exit was due to rising operational costs and supplier changes. —

Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 3 June 2026 Countries that can use mineral leverage to attract processing and manufacturing investment — while avoiding debt burdens that crowd out industrial policy — will be best positioned to move beyond the role of raw-material supplier. —

Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 3 June 2026 The gas tax is applied when the gas stations purchase fuel from suppliers, not when drivers fill up at the pump. —

Kaley Fedko, CBS News, 3 June 2026 Since then, Honeywell Aerospace executives say the problems with some of its suppliers have been corrected. —

Phil Lebeau,meghan Reeder, CNBC, 3 June 2026 As such, the Adidas, Carhartt and Macy’s supplier said retailers can protect merchandise without damaging or compromising it while also reducing the labor needed to execute enterprise-wide tagging. —

Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 3 June 2026

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distributor

Noun

Miramax led the production and financing of the film, while Paramount Pictures was the distributor.

— Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2026
The passage shows the benefit of dropping a talented distributor into deeper positions to orchestrate attacks with pinpoint passing.

— Thom Harris, New York Times, 5 June 2026