Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who supplies a means of subsistence.
- noun One that makes something, such as a service, available.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who provides, furnishes, or supplies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who provides, furnishes, or supplies; one who procures what is wanted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
provides aservice ,commodity , or themeans forsubsistence .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity
- noun someone who provides the means for subsistence
Etymologies
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Examples
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If a provider is allowed to charge an individual w/o insurance the same price that the provider negotiates with the insurance company why would an individual sign up for insurance?
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Paying Cash for Health Care 2010
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He must not ask his wife to go to work, because being a provider is his responsibility, and to ask her to do so, makes him less of a man.
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He must not ask his wife to go to work, because being a provider is his responsibility, and to ask her to do so, makes him less of a man.
Archive 2006-05-01 2006
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In all of these and hundreds of other situations, the provider is making a CONDITIONAL promise: If you follow the steps I outline, you will get the promised result.
John Brown – the author’s official site » 2010 » February » 10 2010
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The provider is not liable solely by virtue of being a online content provider.
A Progressive on the Prairie » The problem with the “blogger bills” » Print 2010
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Planned Parenthood, aside from being an abortion provider, is also an information and contraceptive provider, and those are much easier on everyone than abortions.
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They have removed my number one awesome images provider from the top stumbler list for no reason at all.
Archive 2009-01-01 Bente Lilja Bye 2009
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In all of these and hundreds of other situations, the provider is making a CONDITIONAL promise: If you follow the steps I outline, you will get the promised result.
John Brown – the author’s official site » 2010 » February 2010
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Certainly it can be confusing to have to pick a provider from the interfaces that offer you a selection of many OpenID providers — especially if you have accounts with more than one of them (which to pick?!).
Perception and reality in the land of OpenID | FactoryCity 2009
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The provider is not liable solely by virtue of being a online content provider.
The problem with the “blogger bills” « A Progressive on the Prairie 2010
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