stockist

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *stokk Old English stocc Middle English stok English stock Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English stockist From stock + -ist.

1. 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.”

   “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.”