Supplier

Definition: Supplier

Supplier

Noun

1. Someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "supplier" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1892. (references)

Electrical Engineering

Law

Public Administration

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Supplier

Crosswords: Supplier

French (beg, beseech, entrap, entreat, implore, plead, supplicate).

Books

• Balanced Sourcing: Cooperation and Competition in Supplier Relationships (reference)

• Hewlett-Packard Acquires Storage Virtualization Supplier StorageApps [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Managing Supplier Quality: How to Develop Customer-Supplier Partnerships That Work (reference)

• Supplier Certification: A Continuous Improvement Strategy (reference)

• Supplier Diversity Information Resource Directory 2003 (Supplier Diversity Information Resource Guide, 2003) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Ilta Supplier Member Directory (reference)

• Supplier Selection & Management Report (reference)

• Wards Supplier Directory (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A lot of smack-heads have the came supplier. : Their mum. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

Your doctor must order the proper oxygen system which can benefit you the most. A supplier cannot change your doctor's prescription. (references)

Business

Some liquor stores import directly from the supplier. (references)

The technology supplier is the Israeli Company Tadiran. (references)

Schlumberger is the largest IC card supplier in the world. (references)

Civil Liberties

Mozambique

In March UNESCO's Media Diversity Project began assisting eight newspapers and a major paper supplier to lower their paper costs through the bulk importation of newsprint without customs duties; this achieved an estimated 30 percent cost savings. (references)

Economic History

Pakistan

Canada is an occasional supplier. (references)

Denmark

Nortel is the major U.S. hardware supplier. (references)

Political Economy

JAMAICA

The balance of external debt, 1.4 percent, is composed of supplier credit and other government liabilities. (references)

Colombia

Colombia produces and distributes more cocaine than any other country in the world and is also an important supplier of heroin. (references)

INDONESIA

A foreign supplier is required to cooperate with a small- or medium-sized company or cooperative in the implementation of the contract. (references)

Trade

Maldives

Terms of payment are negotiable between importer and supplier. (references)

France

These loans can be made to the French supplier or the foreign buyer. (references)

Sri Lanka

Under DA terms, the supplier is expected to give credit for a maximum of ninety days. (references)

Travel

Cote D'ivoire

Radiology equipment was provided by a supplier from the U.S. on an Eximbank insurance guarantee program. (references)

Ireland

Irish buyers are concerned that after placing an order with an American supplier, the delivery date will not be honored. (references)

Italy

Italians, and Europeans in general, are concerned that after placing an order with a supplier that the delivery date be honored. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "supplier": credit granted by supplier ♦ specialist supplier ♦ supplier response message. Additional references.

Beginning with "supplier": supplier-consumer, supplier-customer, supplier-firms, supplier-independent, supplier-oriented, supplier-purchaser.

Ending with "supplier": debtor-creditor-supplier.

Albanian

furnitor, ekonomat (contriver, provider). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ممون, ‏مزود (beaded, furnisher, provider, provisioner), ‏المزود (purveyor). (various references)

Bulgarian 

снабдител (connection). (various references)

Chinese 

提供者 (provider), 供�"商. (various references)

Czech

zásobovatel, dodavatel (contractor, victualler). (various references)

Danish

sælger (vendor), underleverandoer (ancillary industry, subcontracting enterprise, supplying company), underentreprenør (subcontractor, sub-contractor), leverandoer (buying source, source of supply, vendor), leverandør (delivering party), elværk (electricity only, supply undertaking). (various references)

Dutch

toeleveringsbedrijf (ancillary industry, subcontracting enterprise, supplying company), toeleverend bedrijf (ancillary industry, subcontracting enterprise, supplying company), toeleverancier (subcontractor, sub-contractor), onderaannemer (ancillary industry, subcontracting enterprise, subcontractor, sub-contractor, supplying company), leverancier (buying source, contractor, delivering party, source of supply), elektriciteitsbedrijf (supply undertaking), bevoorrader, aanvoerder (boss, chief, commander, leader, superior). (various references)

Farsi 

متصدی ملزومات , کارپرداز, تهیه کننده (Provisioner), رساننده . (various references)

Finnish

sähköntoimittaja (supply undertaking), sähkölaitos (electric plant, electricity works), toimittaja (editor), jakelusähkölaitos (distribution undertaking, distributor, supply undertaking). (various references)

French

fournisseur (supply undertaking). (various references)

German

Lieferant (deliveryman, furnisher, purveyor, victualer), zulieferer (ancillary industry, subcontracting enterprise, supplying company). (various references)

Greek 

προμηθευτής (provider). (various references)

Hebrew 

מספק (enough, purveyor, satisfactory). (various references)

Hungarian

szállító (carrier, caterer, chandler, contractor, dealer, deliverer, hauler, haulier, purveyor, remover, shipper), ellátó (provider), szállítmányozó (carrier, conveyer, conveyor, haulage contractor, transporter, Waggoner, Wagoner), felszerelő, főnyomócső (street main). (various references)

Indonesian

penyetor (depositor, purveyor), pemborong (contractor), pemasok. (various references)

Italian

fornitore (furnisher, outfitter, provider, purveyor, stockist, victualer). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

供給者 , 仕入れ先 , サフラン�"� (knapsack), minor characters, sabot, sabotage, Sabrina pants, sand, sub, sub notebook, sub promenade, sub reader, sub sack, subbank, subculture, subdomain, sub-goal, sub-graph, subhead, subject, subleader, sublet, subliminal ad, submanager, submarine, submarine pitcher, sub-menu, subnet, subnetting, sub-network, sub-pattern, sub-process, subroutine, sub-set, substance, substitute, sub-system, subteen, subtitle, subtrack, subway, supplement, supply, to be idle, to be truant, to sabotage by slowness, zephyr lily). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しいれさき, きょうきゅうしゃ, サプライヤー . (various references)

Korean 

공급자 (Provider). (various references)

Manx

fer jannoo magh. (various references)

Pig Latin

uppliersay

Portuguese

supridor, fornecedor (caterer, furnisher, outfitter, provider, purveyor), distribuidor (distributing, distributor, slidevalve), abastecedor (clicker, outfitter, provider, purveyor, victualler). (various references)

Russian 

поставщик (caterer, furnisher, procurer, provisioner, purveyor, shipper, vender, vendor). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

snabdevač (charging point, outfitter, provider, purveyor, victualler), nabavljač (procurer, provider), liferant (purveyor), dobavljač (procurer, purveyor). (various references)

Spanish

proveedor (caterer, provider, provisioner, purveying, purveyor, tradesman, victualer). (various references)

Swedish

leverantör (contractor, delieverer, furnisher). (various references)

Turkish

satıcı (dealer, monger, salesclerk, saleslady, salesman, salesperson, saleswoman, seller, shop assistant, trafficker, vender, vendor), ihtiyacı karşılayan. (various references)

Vietnamese 

người tiếp tế, người cung cấp (provider). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "supplier": suppliers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Supplier" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: splier, supalite, supile, suplier, supplie. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lippers, pileups, pulpers, pulpier, purples, ripples, slipper, suppler, uppiles.

-2 letters: lipper, lisper, peplus, perils, pileup, pileus, pipers, pliers, pulers, pulper, pulser, pupils, purple, ripple, sipper, slipup, supper, supple, uppers, uppile, uprise.

-3 letters: ileus, liers, lieus, lures, peril, peris, perps, piers, piles, pilus, piper, pipes, plier, plies, preps, pries, prise, puler, pules, pulis, pulps.

+1 letter: suppliers.

+2 letters: dipperfuls, popularise, propulsive, resupplied, resupplies.

+3 letters: popularised, popularises, popularizes, purposively, resupplying, semipopular, superpolite.

+4 letters: multipurpose, oversupplied, oversupplies, popularities, popularizers, superplastic, superspecial, suppressible.

+5 letters: insupportable, lepidopterous, oversupplying, perspicuously, precipitously, presumptively, pumpernickels, repopularizes, repopulations, superdiplomat, superphysical, superspecials, undersupplies.