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provider
/pɹəˈvaɪ.dɚ/
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What does provider mean?
noun
- 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.
I am nothing more than a lions' provider: I do not feel at all sure that they will not growl and finally destroy me.
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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?"
“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.”
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.