Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who furnishes provisions or supplies.
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- noun one who supplies
provisions
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- noun a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army
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Rothschild used the trading networks he had developed to become the provisioner for the army as well as its paymaster.
Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009
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From 1641 to 1644 Brebeuf had to serve his beloved Huronia from Quebec where he acted as provisioner for the missions of Georgian Bay.
The Huron Carol written by St. Jean de Brebeuf / 1593-1649 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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From 1641 to 1644 Brebeuf had to serve his beloved Huronia from Quebec where he acted as provisioner for the missions of Georgian Bay.
Archive 2008-12-14 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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So the provisioner went in followed by the portress and the Porter and went on till they reached a spacious ground floor hall,148 built with admirable skill and beautified with all manner colours and carvings; with upper balconies and groined arches and galleries and cupboards and recesses whose curtains hung before them.
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You may remember that Mr. Goldner, the expedition's provisioner of canned foods, failed to deliver the bulk of his goods until less than forty-eight hours before we sailed, so we had to repack both ships to a great extent.
The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007
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Goodsir had learned from the older doctor that a certain Stephan Goldner, the expedition's provisioner from Houndsditch who had won the contract through extraordinarily low bids, had almost certainly cheated Her Majesty's government and Her Majesty's Royal Navy Discovery Service by providing inadequate — and possibly frequently poisonous — victuals.
The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007
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By 1720 he had become the first provisioner to supply the Jewish community here and in the islands with meat that was butchered in the proper rabbinical manner and stamped KASHER.
City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007
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By 1720 he had become the first provisioner to supply the Jewish community here and in the islands with meat that was butchered in the proper rabbinical manner and stamped KASHER.
City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007
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If Our Leader had been in Klinton's position, he'd have done the honorable thing and blamed the White House cigar provisioner.
Archive 2004-06-20 2004
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