/pɹʌvajˈdɚz/ - [pruvayderz] -
We found 3 definitions of providers from 2 different sources.
NounPlural: providers |
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provider - someone who provides the means for subsistence | ||
benefactor, helper a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help) | ||
provider - someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity | ||
supplier | ||
businessperson, bourgeois a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise | ||
black marketeer someone who engages illegally in trade in scarce or controlled commodities | ||
caterer someone who provides food and service (as for a party) | ||
connection shifting from one form of transportation to another; "the plane was late and he missed his connection in Atlanta" | ||
dispenser a container so designed that the contents can be used in prescribed amounts | ||
distributer, distributor electrical device that distributes voltage to the spark plugs of a gasoline engine in the order of the firing sequence | ||
purveyor someone who supplies provisions (especially food) | ||
recruiter an official who enlists personnel for military service | ||
stockist one (as a retailer or distributor) that stocks goods |