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# supplier

noun (a supplier, suppliers)

«supplier» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supplier/#x1)
- Our energy supplier sends a bill every month. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supplier/#x2)
- The shop changed suppliers to get cheaper prices. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supplier/#x4)
- The school's food supplier delivers every morning. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supplier/#x5)
- Farmers are suppliers to supermarkets. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supplier/#x6)
- Good suppliers deliver on time. [tree →](https://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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «supplier» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supplier/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«supplier» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/supplier.html) on Mova free.