In plain English
This tells who is offering the item for sale. The seller can be an individual person or a business.
In context
Here, it identifies the person or business selling the current offer.
- Situation
- Browsing product availability, variants, stock, condition, and seller information
- What it communicates
- labels the seller name for the current offer.
Meaning limits
By itself, this term only identifies the seller and does not indicate anything else about the offer.
Examples
“The painting is sold by a gallery, not by the artist who made it.”
“Among these offers, only the red bicycle is sold by a private owner.”