distributer

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun someone who markets merchandise
noun electrical device that distributes voltage to the spark plugs of a gasoline engine in the order of the firing sequence

From distribute + -er.

Almner, x, 38, almoner, distributer of alms. — Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, Edmund Spenser
It is the peculiar situation of Spain and Portugal, as proprietors of the mines, to be the distributers of gold and silver to all the other countries of Europe. — An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
However, as he kept the post-office, it was imagined he had better opportunities of obtaining news; his paper was thought a better distributer of advertisements than mine, and therefore had many more, which was a profitable thing to him, and a disadvantage to me; for, tho' I did indeed receive and send papers by the post, yet the publick opinion was otherwise, for what I did send was by bribing the riders, who took them privately, Bradford being unkind enough to forbid it, which occasion'd some resentment on my part; and I thought so meanly of him for it, that, when I afterward came into his situation, I took care never to imitate it. — Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin

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