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purveyor (s) (noun), purveyors (pl)
1. A person, or a company that supplies goods or products; especially, food: The local restaurant is a popular purveyor of quality meals.
2. Someone who, or a business that, sells or provides something for sale: Mark's friend is a purveyor of kitchen supplies.

Pete's company is a purveyor of a new style of watch that not only functions as a means of keeping time, but also provides a means of talking on a cell phone.

3. A supplier, seller, or circulator of something; especially, anything that is disapproved of or ridiculed: The politician was accused of being a purveyor of false promises of lower income taxes.
4. Etymology: from about 1290, from Old French porveoir, "to provide"; which came from Latin providere, "to look ahead, to prepare, to supply"; from pro-, "ahead" + videre, "to see".
A distributor or supplier of provisions or information.
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A person, or a company that provides or supplies goods or products; especially food. (1)
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