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provider

/pɹəˈvaɪ.dɚ/

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What does provider mean?

noun

  1. One who, or that which, provides a service, commodity, or the means for subsistence.

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I would have left it on the board, so soon As I had made my meal, and parted With pray’rs for the provider.
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100
I am nothing more than a lions' provider: I do not feel at all sure that they will not growl and finally destroy me.
Charles DarwinLife and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1Project Gutenberg ebook #2087
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It is therefore an ill saying, when applied in the most rigorous extent, "Let every man maintain himself, and be his own provider: why should we help him?"
William GodwinThoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the AuthorProject Gutenberg ebook #743
“He had ample opportunity to harm us himself, or to lead his people against us. Instead, during our long residence here, he has been uniformly consistent in his role of protector and provider.”
Edgar Rice BurroughsTarzan of the ApesProject Gutenberg ebook #78
Undoubtedly, Nature has supplied all the elements which the human organism needs in abundance and in the right proportions in the natural foods, otherwise she would be a very ignorant organizer and provider.
Henry LindlahrNature Cure: Philosophy & Practice Based on the Unity of Disease & CureProject Gutenberg ebook #4273