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# supplier

«supplier» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person or company that provides goods or services to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a supplier, suppliers)

### meaning for a pupil

A supplier is a person or company that provides goods or services to other people or businesses, often regularly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supplier/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In money and business lessons, a shop buys goods from a supplier and sells them to customers for more, which is how it makes a profit. In maths problems, a supplier's price per item is used to work out costs. Energy suppliers provide gas and electricity to homes.

### examples

- The bakery gets its flour from a local supplier. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supplier/#x1)
- Our energy supplier sends a bill every month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supplier/#x2)
- The shop changed suppliers to get cheaper prices. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supplier/#x3)
- A supplier sells 100 pencils for £5; how much is each pencil? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supplier/#x4)
- The school's food supplier delivers every morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supplier/#x5)
- Farmers are suppliers to supermarkets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supplier/#x6)
- Good suppliers deliver on time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supplier/#x7)

### note

Countable: suppliers. Spelling: supply → supplier (y → i). Verb: supply. In maths, the shop's profit = selling price − the supplier's price.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «supplier» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supplier/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.