From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdistributordis‧trib‧u‧tor /dɪˈstrɪbjətə $ -ər/ ●●○ noun [countable] 1 BBa company or person that supplies shops and companies with goods2 TTCthe part of an engine that sends an electric current to the spark plugs
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distributor• Eurotech, designers and distributors of value-added data communications systems.• The goal is to link the company and the suppliers and distributors so that payments can be sent and received electronically.• The life companies had to learn to be distributors of their own products.• For example, the business may be the sole distributor of certain products within the United Kingdom.• Greg and Lauri Duncan, like most of our successful distributors, have involved their children in the business from day one.• For a five-minute film the television distributor, Screen Gems, offered $ 2,700.• Small volume issues can be handled successfully - as the distributors of the smaller labels demonstrate consistently.• Demonstrators can rise to the ranks of manager, and ultimately distributor, which brings with it a company car.From Longman Business Dictionarydistributordis‧trib‧u‧tor /dɪˈstrɪbjətə-ər/ noun [countable]COMMERCETRANSPORT a person or business responsible for making goods available to customers after they have been produced, either one that sells directly to the public or one that sells to shops etcWe make sure that the distributors are always stocked adequately with the fast-moving standard items. 