service providers
Companies offering assistance
Service providers are businesses or individuals that perform work for customers rather than selling physical goods.
The term covers a vast range: internet service providers, healthcare providers, financial services firms, plumbers, consultants.
In legal and business contexts, service provider often appears in contracts defining who does what: The service provider agrees to maintain the equipment.
The phrase sometimes carries bureaucratic overtones, replacing simpler words like company or contractor.
- suppliersThose who furnish goods
- vendorsThose who sell goods
- contractorsHired service providers
- providersThose who furnish
- third partyUninvolved outside entity
utilities · telecommunications · freelancers · gig economy · telcos · maintenance · outsourcing · infrastructure · tech support · law firm · support · cloud computing · white glove · financial advisor · call center · invoices · fine print · billing
- telecomwireless, cellular, telecommunications, carriers, telephone
- local economyshops, markets, jobs, wages, workers
- relationshipsfriends, romantic, family, friend, flirting
- directoriesphone book, phone books, white pages, phone directory, business directory
- substitutessubstitute, subs, replacement, substitutes, stand-in
- bourgeoisiemiddle class, petit bourgeois, shop owners, shopkeepers, merchants
service providerscustomers
People who purchase goods
clients · consumers · end users · subscribers · patrons
service providersmanufacturers
Entities producing goods massively
retailers · wholesalers · fabricators · distributors · factories
serve, service, serving, servant, served, server, services, provider, servitude