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supplier

noun
/səˈplaɪə/

Etymology

From supply + -er.

  1. derived from suppleo
  2. derived from soupleer
  3. inherited from supplien
  4. formed as supplier — “supply + -er”

Definitions

  1. One who supplies

    One who supplies; a provider.

    • A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.

  2. Someone who assists (sets up) a goal.

    • Regular supplier Barton played in another teasing corner, which was headed on towards goal by the impressive Ameobi and flicked in by expert poacher Nolan.

The neighborhood

Derived

fuel supplier, nonsupplier, self-supplier, subsupplier

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for supplier. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA