Meanings
plural stockists
- 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 263Synonyms: stockholder
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA retailer or distributor who has stocks of a certain type of item for sale.
Origin
- Proto-West Germanic*stokk
- Old Englishstocc
- Middle Englishstok
- Englishstock
- Englishstockist
Cite this entry
stockist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stockist
“stockist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stockist. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “stockist,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stockist.
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