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Chandler, city (1990 pop. 90,533), Maricopa co., S central Ariz., in the Salt River valley; inc. 1920. It is both a residential community and a center for research and technology. Tourism is also important, and the San Marcos Golf Resort is in Chandler. Many of Chandler's citizens work in nearby Phoenix Phoenix, city (1990 pop. 983,403), state capital and seat of Maricopa co., S Ariz., on the Salt River; inc. 1881. It is the largest city in Arizona, the hub of the rich agricultural region of the Salt River valley, and an important center for research and
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chandler
1. a dealer in a specified trade or merchandise
2. a person who makes or sells candles
3. Brit obsolete a retailer of grocery provisions; shopkeeper

Chandler
Raymond (Thornton). 1888--1959, US thriller writer: created Philip Marlowe, one of the first detective heroes in fiction


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Ship building had all but ceased by the time the railway came in 1867 and Penmaenpool, with its pub and ship chandlers, became a station on the Cambrian Railway.
The March Group, LLC currently represents a ship chandler supplying equipment and ships' stores primarily to cruise ships based in southern Florida.
There are patriot "shoemakers, saddlers, carpenters, wheelwrights, blacksmiths, coopers, tailors and ship chandlers," as well as their counterpart Loyalists--and the splendidly trained but equally human redcoats and Hessians.
 
 
 
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