Someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers.

synonyms: middleman, wholesaler.

Roget 548: deceiver etc. (deceive) etc. 545; dissembler, hypocrite; sophist, Pharisee, Jesuit, Mawworm^†, Pecksniff, Joseph Surface, Tartufe^†, Janus; serpent, snake in the grass, cockatrice, Judas, wolf in sheep's clothing; jilt; shuffler^†, stool pigeon.    liar etc. (lie) etc. 544; story-teller, perjurer, false witness, menteur a triple etage [Fr.], Scapin^†; bunko steerer [U.S.], carpetbagger [U.S.], capper [U.S.], faker, fraud, four flusher [Slang], horse coper^†, ringer [Slang], spieler^†, straw bidder [U.S.].    imposter, pretender, soi-disant [Fr.], humbug; adventurer; Cagliostro, Fernam Mendez Pinto; ass in lion's skin etc. (bungler) 701; actor etc. (stage player) 599.    quack, charlatan, mountebank, saltimbanco^†, saltimbanque^†, empiric, quacksalver, medicaster^†, Rosicrucian, gypsy; man of straw.    conjuror, juggler, trickster, prestidigitator, jockey; crimp, decoy, decoy duck; rogue, knave, cheat; swindler etc. (thief) 792; jobber.    ... show more

Roget 700: proficient, expert, adept, dab; dabster^†, crackerjack; connoisseur etc. (scholar) 492; master, master hand; prima donna [Sp.], first fiddle, top gun, chef de cuisine, top sawyer; protagonist; past master; mahatma.    picked man; medallist, prizeman^†.    veteran; old stager, old campaigner, old soldier, old file, old hand; man of business, man of the world.    nice hand, good hand, clean hand; practiced hand, experienced eye, experienced hand; marksman; good shot, dead shot, crack shot; ropedancer, funambulist^†, acrobat; cunning man; conjuror etc. (deceiver) 548; wizard etc. 994.    genius; mastermind, master head, master spirit.    cunning blade, sharp blade, sharp fellow; jobber; cracksman etc. (thief) 792^†; politician, tactician, strategist.    pantologist^†, admirable Crichton, Jack of all trades; prodigy of learning.    ... show more

Roget 797: merchant, trader, dealer, monger, chandler, salesman; changer; regrater^†; shopkeeper, shopman^†; tradesman, tradespeople, tradesfolk.    retailer; chapman, hawker, huckster, higgler^†; pedlar, colporteur, cadger, Autolycus^†; sutler^†, vivandiere^†; costerman^†, costermonger^†; tallyman; camelot; faker; vintner.    money broker, money changer, money lender; cambist^†, usurer, moneyer^†, banker.    jobber; broker etc. (agent) 758; buyer etc. 795; seller etc. 796; bear, bull.    concern; firm etc. (partnership) 712.    ... show more

Roget 799a: stock market, stock exchange, securities exchange; bourse, board; the big board, the New York Stock Exchange; the market, the open market; over-the-counter market; privately traded issues.    commodities exchange, futures exchange, futures market.    the pit, the floor.    ticker, stock ticker, quotation; stock index, market index, the Dow Jones Index, the Dow Industrials, the transportation index, utilities, the utilities index; the New York Stock Exchange index, the Nikkei index [Jap.Tr.]; the Financial Times index, the FTI [Brit.], the over-the-counter index, NASDAQ index.    [person or firm trading securities] broker, stockbroker, jobber, stock dealer, odd-lot dealer; specialist.    [person who buys or sells stocks] investor, speculator, operator; bull, buyer; bear, short seller; scalper, arbitrager^†, arbitrageur^†; stockholder, share-holder, stockholder of record; bond holder, coupon-clipper [Sarc.].    investment; speculation.    ... show more

Roget 943: selfishness etc. adj.; self-love, self-indulgence, self-worship, self-interest; egotism, egoism; amour propre [Fr.], etc. (vanity) 880; nepotism.    worldliness etc. adj.; world wisdom.    illiberality; meanness etc. adj.. time-pleaser, time-server; tuft-hunter, fortune-hunter; jobber, worldling; egotist, egoist, monopolist, nepotist; dog in the manger, charity that begins at home; canis in praesepi [Lat.], foes to nobleness," temporizer, trimmer.    ... show more

Dutch: stalhouder, tussenhandelaar, groothandelaar, grossier
Polish: hurtownik