purveyor
Americannoun
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a person who purveys, provides, or supplies.
a purveyor of foods; a purveyor of lies.
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Old English Law. an officer who provided or acquired provisions for the sovereign under the prerogative of purveyance.
Etymology
Origin of purveyor
1250–1300; Middle English pourveour < Anglo-French; purvey, -or 2
Example Sentences
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The clients discover they don’t really need the magic candies to solve their problems, and the purveyor learns something essential about human behavior—his secret motivation for helping.
From Salon
Their purveyors are interested in some other point and therefore have no interest in reason.
Chip makers and cloud-computing purveyors have described the demand for their offerings as effectively limitless, with heads of the AI model companies bemoaning capacity constraints and tussling over chip allotments.
Look for X’s John Doe as a purveyor of bootleg caviar.
From Los Angeles Times
The New York Times, now the best-known purveyor of crosswords, thought the puzzle beneath it, and didn’t offer one until 1941.
From Los Angeles Times
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