English > provider: 2 senses > noun 1, person | Meaning | someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity. |
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| Synonym | supplier |
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| Narrower | black marketeer | someone who engages illegally in trade in scarce or controlled commodities |
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| caterer | someone who provides food and service (as for a party) |
| connection | A supplier (especially of narcotics) |
| dispenser | A person who dispenses |
| distributor, distributer | someone who markets merchandise |
| purveyor | someone who supplies provisions / provisions (especially food) |
| recruiter | someone who supplies members or employees |
| stockist | One (as a retailer or distributor / distributor) that stocks goods |
| sutler, victualer, victualler, provisioner | A supplier of victuals or supplies to an army |
| Broader | businessperson, bourgeois | A capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise |
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| Spanish | abastecedor, aprovisionador, asentista, proveedora, proveedor, suministrador |
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| Catalan | abastador, proveïdor, provisor, subministrador |
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| Verbs | provide | give something useful or necessary to |
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