purveyor

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim One who purveys (“furnishes, provides; gets, procures”); a supplier; specifically, one in the business of supplying food or other necessary material goods; a provisioner.

   “The merchants are the purveyors of fine selections.”

2. isim An officer who obtained provisions such as accommodation and food for the household of a monarch or some other high-ranking person; also, an officer in charge of obtaining provisions for an army, a city, etc.

   “groom purveyor    yeoman purveyor”

3. isim A person or group that promotes or spreads an idea, a viewpoint, etc.

   “purveyors of false information”

4. isim One who arranges or prepares something; an arranger, an orchestrator, a preparer.

   “That certayn servantes of sir Fraunces Knowles [Francis Knollys?] and other [resorting to his lectures] fell owte amonge themselfes, and were lyke to have commytted murther, and therefore he was suer of sedition and prevyer of unlawfull assemblies.”