distributorship

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noun

A business specializing in the wholesale distribution of a particular class of goods

OriginProto-Germanic *skapjaną ← English distributor →
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Meanings

noundistributorship (plural distributorships)

plural distributorships

  1. A business specializing in the wholesale distribution of a particular class of goods

    When two other refugees asked him to help set up a Piaget distributorship in New York, he jumped at the chance.

    2009 January 7, Douglas Martin, “G. Grinberg, Watch Baron, Dies at 77”, in New York Times

Origin

  1. Englishdistributor
  2. Proto-Germanic*skapjaną
  3. Englishdistributorship

From distributor + -ship.

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APA

distributorship. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/distributorship

MLA

“distributorship.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/distributorship. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “distributorship,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/distributorship.

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