provider

Noun

Meaning

One who provides, furnishes, or supplies; one who procures what is wanted.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

supplier patron sponsor donor contractor benefactor backer giver vendor distributor purveyor furnisher goodman source producer
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Antonyms

peterman receiver recipient collector robber cheater
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Hypernyms

bourgeois helper benefactor businessperson

Hyponyms

producer connection dispenser recruiter caterer distributer

Related terms

purveyor provisioner

Phrases with the word

healthcare provider lion's provider fuel provider identity provider mid-level provider higher education provider

Examples

The conjuror or con man is a very good provider of information. He supplies lots of data, by inference or direct statement, but it's false data. Scientists aren't used to that scenario. An electron or a galaxy is not capricious, nor deceptive; but a human can be either or both. James Randi

Better a dish of husks to the accompaniment of a muted lute than to be satiated with stewed shark's fin and rich spiced wine of which the cost is frequently mentioned by the provider. Ernest Bramah

That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all. August Strindberg

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality. Shimon Peres

Hence we may recognize the subject of management cybernetics - which is seen as a rich provider of models for doing OR. Anthony Stafford Beer

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them. Jerome Bruner

Close letter words and terms

providentially providently providentness providing providing of employment providing of job