Provider
[prə'vaɪdə] or [prə'vaɪdɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who provides, furnishes, or supplies; one who procures what is wanted.
Typist: Phil
Examples
- Instead, during our long residence here, he has been uniformly consistent in his role of protector and provider. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Abuse and disuse characterize the older view of the state: guardian and censor it has been, provider but grudgingly. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Comfortable provider! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- But once you see the state as a provider of civilizing opportunities, his whole objection collapses. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Eliza, the rector's cook, fortunately knew her business as provider. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A generous provider supplied bounteous fuel. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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