What's the difference between supplier and victualer?

Supplier


Definition:

  • (n.) One who supplies.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Michael Schumacher’s manager hopes F1 champion ‘will be here again one day’ Read more Last year, Red Bull were frustrated by Mercedes, Ferrari and Honda as they desperately looked for a new engine supplier.
  • (2) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
  • (3) But the company's problems appear to be multiplying, with rumours that suppliers are demanding earlier payment than before, putting pressure on HTC's cash position.
  • (4) Aldi, Lidl and Morrisons are to raise the price they pay their suppliers for milk, bowing to growing pressure from dairy farmers who say the industry is in crisis.
  • (5) The results of our utilization review were conveyed to local hospitals and the blood supplier in an effort to preserved donor blood.
  • (6) The figures, published in the company’s annual report , triggered immediate anger from fuel poverty campaigners who noted that energy suppliers had just been rapped over the knuckles by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for overcharging .
  • (7) We are urgently investigating this incident with our supplier and ask customers to return this product to their local store."
  • (8) In Wednesday’s budget speech , George Osborne acknowledged there had been a big rise in overseas suppliers storing goods in Britain and selling them online without paying VAT.
  • (9) This virus was imported on multiple occasions from a Philippine supplier of cynomolgus macaques as a consequence of an epidemic of acute infections in the foreign holding facility.
  • (10) The Defense Department can object to a merger involving its key suppliers during a federal antitrust review, which in this case could be led by the Justice Department.
  • (11) British Gas has become the second leading energy supplier to freeze its standard prices this winter.
  • (12) Only one country – China – could apply serious leverage – because it is North Korea's major supplier of oil and food and main trading partner, Hoare said.
  • (13) More suppliers have told the Guardian of extensive negotiations with Amazon staff in Slough, adding to the impression that the company carries out important trading activities in the UK and so could be liable for tax.
  • (14) It’s a damp squib, a bit of a nothing result,” a leading energy analyst said of a report that is widely expected to endorse provisional findings released in March , and recommend price controls on prepayment meters and setting up a customer database to help rival suppliers target customers stuck on expensive default tariffs.
  • (15) From Tuesday, the Neckarsulm-based grocer will be the official supplier of water, fish, fruit and vegetables for Roy Hodgson’s boys under a multimillion-pound three-year deal with the Football Association.
  • (16) Five of Britain's big energy suppliers have announced increases for the second time this year, with EDF Energy the only one still to declare its intentions.
  • (17) "We remain committed to sourcing merchandise that is produced responsibly by suppliers that adhere to Walmart's rigorous Standards for Suppliers code of conduct."
  • (18) The main suppliers were VAMP (78 practices), AAH Meditel (46), and AMC (23).
  • (19) Different procurement systems have already made England a slightly "different country" for Scottish suppliers, many of whom are more concerned about Cameron's equivocal attitude towards the European Union.
  • (20) Sodium nitritie is readily available from chemical suppliers and is generally much less expensive than most commercial inhibitors.

Victualer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who furnishes victuals.
  • (n.) One who keeps a house of entertainment; a tavern keeper; an innkeeper.
  • (n.) A vessel employed to carry provisions, usually for military or naval use; a provision use; a provision ship.
  • (n.) One who deals in grain; a corn factor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He became chair of the Society of Licensed Victuallers, recognised for his fundraising work.
  • (2) The claim for a zero tolerance for victuals and ready-to-use baby foods is corroborated.
  • (3) A hypothesis is framed about which any influences of the nutrition may cause variations of the cranium, but concerning physiological data, kinds of nutrition and special victuals' ingredients cannot still be mentioned.
  • (4) West and east Indian trade founded merchant dynasties, but also created a hinterland of ship builders, outfitters, victuallers, warehousemen, carriers and wholesalers.
  • (5) Data were collected from the stores accounts of six ships over a period of 32,354 man-victualling-days.
  • (6) In 1849 C. D. Schroff established therein the Institute for Experimental Pharmacology of Vienna University and around 1864 A. E. Vogl began his outstanding microscopic investigations of pharmacologically relevant plants and of victuals.

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