Meaning of supplier in English

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(Definition of supplier from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of supplier

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The supplier alone prepares the proposal and face-to-face meetings are very late and adversarial.

When the supplier completes a task, the customer pays the remainder of the price.

Consider an electronic cash carrying agent which migrates to some supplier's server.

Since state agencies cease standing on the 'front-line' as service suppliers, they are shielded from consumers' critiques and demands.

These bids flowed down the chain from customer to supplier until most of the buy bids had filtered to the sellers.

Hence, they normally affect a smaller number of suppliers.

It contains contributions from a broad and distributed team of designers, suppliers and analysts.

The multinational affiliates have generally imported inputs and services from their corporate headquarters, rather than buying them from local suppliers.

Markets consist of networks of dealings in which effective demand is met by suppliers at a mutually agreed price.

Compost suppliers should be able to provide relevant data on these issues.

In contrast, these documents emphasize the complex relationships between suppliers, workers, makers and retailers, structures not generally discernible from surviving instruments.

One or more suppliers can cause some or all of the variables to assume specific assignments.

Sourcing generally deals with the search for and identification of suppliers, materials and services.

The outlets did not have common suppliers of other foods, including meat.

Although this method may help maximise utility it implies there is -exibility to switch between suppliers, etc. at minimum cost.

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Collocations with supplier

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component supplier

This was to enhance supra-national competition by enabling any railway component supplier to meet globally recognized levels of quality for its railway components.

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domestic supplier

If the domestic supplier is too expensive, a company will move to a foreign-owned trucker.

external supplier

We ensure value for money by selecting external suppliers through strict competitive tendering processes.

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Translations of supplier

in Chinese (Traditional)

(尤指長期的)供應商,提供者,供應者…

in Chinese (Simplified)

(尤指长期的)供应商,提供者,供应者…

in Spanish

proveedor, proveedora, Proveedor…

in Portuguese

fornecedor, fornecedora…

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tedarikçi, satıcı, mal sağlayıcı…

ஒரு நிறுவனம், நபர், முதலியன. இது மக்கள் விரும்பும் அல்லது தேவைப்படும் விஷயங்களை வழங்குகிறது…

سپلائر, فراہم کار, سامان مہیا کرنے والا (شخص، کمپنی یا کوئی ادارہ)…

సామగ్రి ఇచ్ఛావారు, సరఫరాదారుడు…

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