confectionernoun [ C ]
uk/kənˈfek.ʃən.ər/us/kənˈfek.ʃən.ɚ/a company or person that makes or sells sweets or chocolate
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People who sell things
- agent
- assistant
- auctioneer
- barker
- barrow boy
- cashier
- franchisee
- hawker
- ironmonger
- label
- marketeer
- sales force
- sales rep
- salesclerk
- salesman
- salesperson
- tradesman
- tradespeople
- vendor
- wholesaler
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Sweets
Examples from literature
- As a child she was very fond of ice-cream, and I used often to take her to a confectioner's.
- I saw her in Carlton's, that new confectioner's shop on Main Street.
- It needed a facade as badly as does a confectioner's plum-cake.
- Obediently to her order, we stopped at a confectioner's.
- Peterborough Cathedral we also saw the outside of, and I felt like a boy looking in at a confectioner's window with no money to buy anything.