distributor

5 definitions • 4 examples

a person or organization that supplies goods to shops and companies:

a film distributor

a device in a petrol engine that sends electricity to each of the spark plugs (= devices that start the engine) in the necessary order

a person or company that supplies goods to the businesses that sell them

A distributor in an engine is a device that sends electricity to each of the spark plugs (= devices that cause the engine to start).

a person or company that buys products from a manufacturer and sells them for a profit to other businesses, stores, or customers, often by transporting the goods to different places:

distributor of sth For the past twenty years they have been the country's leading distributor of household appliances.

local/international/national distributor

exclusive/sole distributor We have appointed the company as sole distributor of our goods in Japan.