Meaning

2 senses

  1. One who supplies provisions.

    Near-synonyms: victualler, victualer; supplier; outfitter; equipper; dealer; vendor

    a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army

  2. One who or that which provisions (sets up an account, resources, etc.).

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From provision + -er.

From provision + -er.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: provisioners
Singularprovisioner
Pluralprovisioners

regular

Synonyms

10 synonyms
supplierB2dealerB1providerpurveyorvictualleroutfitterequippervendorvictualer
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedprovision

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
provisionB2provisionalprovisoprovocateurprovocationC2provocativeC1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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