ship chandler

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   a dealer in equipment and supplies for ships

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Questions about ship chandler

What does ship chandler mean?

ship chandler means "a dealer in equipment and supplies for ships".

Is ship chandler a common word?

ship chandler is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.