stockist

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noun

A retailer or distributor who has stocks of a certain type of item for sale.

“I need a replacement cartridge but I can't find a stockist.”

UncommonScrabble 14

Meanings

nounstockist (plural stockists)

plural stockists

  1. CommonwealthIrelandUKA retailer or distributor who has stocks of a certain type of item for sale.

    I need a replacement cartridge but I can't find a stockist.

    1 more example

    But of all the tunes, the one she loved the most, and almost managed to capture in its entirety, was a song she had seen performed live back in the late 1970s, when she had first travelled to Britain with the hope of finding stockists for her clothing.

    2016, Laurence Fearnley, The Quiet Spectacular, →ISBN, page 263

    Synonyms: stockholder

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA retailer or distributor who has stocks of a certain type of item for sale.

Also see

Origin

  1. Proto-West Germanic*stokk
  2. Old Englishstocc
  3. Middle Englishstok
  4. Englishstock
  5. Englishstockist

From stock + -ist.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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