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provider
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun provider has 2 senses
- provider(n = noun.person) supplier - someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity; Array has particulars: black marketeer, caterer, connection, dispenser, distributer, distributor, purveyor, recruiter, stockist, provisioner, sutler, victualer, victualler
- provider(n = noun.person) Array - someone who provides the means for subsistence; Array is a kind of benefactor, helper
is a kind of bourgeois, businessperson
Derived form verb provide1
Derived form verb provide2
CIDE DICTIONARY
provider, n.
One who provides, furnishes, or supplies; one who procures what is wanted. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
provider, n.
1 a person or thing that provides.
2 the breadwinner of a family etc.
1 a person or thing that provides.
2 the breadwinner of a family etc.
THESAURUS
provider
caterer, chandler, commissariat, commissary, donor, furnisher, manciple, merchant, patron, provisioner, purveyor, quartermaster, retailer, steward, stock clerk, storekeeper, supplier, sutler, victualer, vivandier
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