1. a person who is in a position to give you special assistance - he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor • Syn: contact • Hypernyms: representative 2. the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk • Syn: interlocutor • Hypernyms: minstrel • Member Holonyms: minstrel show 3. someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers • Syn: jobber, wholesaler • Derivationally related forms: wholesale (for: wholesaler) • Hypernyms: distributor, distributer • Hyponyms: meat packer, packer
