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purveyor

[ per-vey-er ]

noun

  1. a person who purveys, provides, or supplies:

    a purveyor of foods; a purveyor of lies.

  2. Old English Law. an officer who provided or acquired provisions for the sovereign under the prerogative of purveyance.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of purveyor1

1250–1300; Middle English pourveour < Anglo-French; purvey, -or 2
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Example Sentences

As social media platforms become more active in stemming the flow of misinformation, its purveyors are starting to seek new homes free from policing.

Marc Benioff, Salesforce’s billionaire founder and CEO, clearly wishes to build his business into something greater than just a purveyor of software for managing customers and sales leads, the company’s bread-and-butter money-maker.

From Fortune

Another way to look at the damage is it’s that much money every month that we are not spending on or buying from the farmers, purveyors, and companies we do business with.

From Eater

Meat giants themselves are now the purveyors of plant-based meat, with companies like Cargill selling their plant-based chicken even in China.

From Fortune

Keep in mind that Tesla isn’t a mass-market purveyor like VW and Toyota.

From Fortune

And as a purveyor of childishness myself, I understand how annoying it can be.

But the person authorized to perform the demolition is not Sarah Palin or some other purveyor of junk jingoism.

The lanky, scandal-scarred former Congressman and purveyor of the now colloquial sext, has lived and died by the tweet.

Well, Apple is now a purveyor of expensive, high-end products in a market where consumers are turning to cheaper alternatives.

Greengrass, purveyor of the shaky cam, and screenwriter Billy Ray, have paid enormous attention to detail here.

Mademoiselle and myself had agreed to divide between us the office of purveyor to the party.

The fame of Mrs. Recknor as a purveyor of hot biscuits was co-extensive with the line of the road.

Purveyor, Surveyor, or whatsoever other title "please thine ear," art thou deaf?

When we landed in New York I went directly and made myself known to the man who was to act as purveyor of your majesty's pension.

The prince recognised the tradesman's generosity by making his antagonist purveyor to his household.

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