Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
someone who supplies provisions (especially food);
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Purveyor \Pur*vey"or\, n. [OE. porveour, OF. pourveor, F.
pourvoyeur. See Purvey, and cf. Proveditor.]
1. One who provides victuals, or whose business is to make
provision for the table; a victualer; a caterer.
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2. An officer who formerly provided, or exacted provision,
for the king's household. [Eng.]
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3. a procurer; a pimp; a bawd. --Addison.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
purveyor
n 1: someone who supplies provisions (especially food)
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
20 Moby Thesaurus words for "purveyor":
caterer, chandler, commissariat, commissary, donor, furnisher,
manciple, merchant, patron, provider, provisioner, quartermaster,
retailer, steward, stock clerk, storekeeper, supplier, sutler,
victualer, vivandier
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
Purveyor
A web server for Windows NT
and Windows 95 (when available).
(http://process.com/).
E-mail: .
(1995-04-11)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):
PURVEYOR. One employed in procuring provisions. Vide Code, 1, 34.