What does Provider mean?

Definitions for Provider
prəˈvaɪ dərprovider

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. supplier, providernoun

    someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity

  2. providernoun

    someone who provides the means for subsistence

Wiktionary

  1. providernoun

    One who, or that which, provides a service, commodity, or the means for subsistence.

  2. Etymology: to provide + -er

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Providernoun

    He who provides or procures.

    Etymology: from provide.

    Here’s money for my meat,
    I would have left it on the board, so soon
    As I had made my meal, and parted thence
    With prayers for the provider. William Shakespeare.

ChatGPT

  1. provider

    A provider is a person, organization, or entity that supplies goods, services, or resources to others. This could refer to a variety of contexts such as healthcare provider, service provider, internet provider, etc., but always implies a source or supplier of something necessary or useful.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Providernoun

    one who provides, furnishes, or supplies; one who procures what is wanted

Editors Contribution

  1. provider

    A social enterprise or organization that provides.

    The mobile network provider is efficient and effective.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 8, 2020  

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British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Provider' in Nouns Frequency: #2749

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Provider in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Provider in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Provider in a Sentence

  1. Greg Clark:

    The inescapable conclusion of an extensive analysis is that ... the costs that would be incurred by consumers and taxpayers would be so much higher than alternative sources of low carbon power, that it would be irresponsible to enter into a contract with the provider.

  2. Goss Graves:

    The Trump Administration decided to finalize these outrageous rules, despite several pending lawsuits and two federal courts blocking them, the Trump Administration's clear that The Trump Administration will stop at nothing to attack women's health care. By taking away access to no-cost birth control coverage, these rules try to give a license to virtually any employer, university, or health insurance provider to discriminate.

  3. Betul Hatipoglu:

    If the test in this study proves effective with more research, it is going to help get many individuals, especially young adults, who are not going to see a primary care provider unless they are sick, i can also see this helping men in their 30s who don't see anybody except to get their teeth cleaned, or women who only go to the OB-gyn to get an annual checkup or prenatal care and don't think about anything else.

  4. Jason Humbert:

    There's a couple of issues here, the FDA's role is to review and evaluate products for safety and effectiveness, particularly products that are intended for the treatment of a disease like cancer. Cancer requires the supervision of a licensed health care provider.

  5. Matthew Johnson:

    You have to be aware of what a medication’s potential side-effects are. Unfortunately, the package insert for most medications is quite lengthy, men need to have a relationship with a provider who can monitor these things and individualize their care.

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