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stockist

American  
[stok-ist] / ˈstɒk ɪst /

noun

British.
  1. a wholesale or retail establishment that stocks merchandise.


stockist British  
/ ˈstɒkɪst /

noun

  1. commerce a dealer who undertakes to maintain stocks of a specified product at or above a certain minimum in return for favourable buying terms granted by the manufacturer of the product

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of stockist

First recorded in 1905–10; stock + -ist


Example Sentences

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The owners and managers were not addressed by name, with the emails instead addressed to a "Jellycat stockist".

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025

The time is November 1976, and the space is the Nuneaton branch of Radio Rentals, the old TV stockist that was once a familiar high street fixture.

From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2023

As well as Selfridges and Matches Fashion, Veja has just secured its latest stockist, Net-a-Porter.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 19, 2017

We have made it company policy to refund the difference if an item can be purchased for a cheaper price from another stockist, even if a customer was not aware a discount was on offer.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2013

But Hickoree’s is also a stockist for the sorts of old-time American brands that now exist primarily in the form of licenses to feed Japanese demand for vintage Americana.

From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2011

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