distributor
Use distributor in a sentence
yə noun
1.
a person or thing that distributes.
2.
Commerce.
a.
a person, firm, etc., engaged in the general distribution or marketing of some article or class of goods.
b.
a wholesaler who has exclusive rights to market, within a given territory, the goods of a manufacturer or company.
3.
Automotive, Machinery. a device in a multicylinder engine that distributes the igniting voltage to the spark plugs in a definite sequence.
4.
Printing.
a.
(in a press) one of the rollers for spreading ink on the table, rolling it to a proper consistency, and transferring it to rollers that ink the form or plate.
b.
Also called distributor bar. (in a Linotype) a bar with keylike cuts along its length, for sorting matrices into their proper magazines after type has been cast.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a person or thing that distributes |
| 2. | a wholesaler or middleman engaged in the distribution of a category of goods, esp to retailers in a specific area |
| 3. | the device in a petrol engine that distributes the high-tension voltage to the sparking plugs in the sequence of the firing order |
| distributer or distributer | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
Then the voter must consult a much larger list of all of the families served by that distributor.
They would certainly not want to lose such a big distributor in today's difficult economic climate.
Subsequently, other callers to the distributor also raised questions about the drug.
Overdrive, a large e-book distributor for libraries, released its app for e-books.
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