"provider" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

Someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity (synset 110696710)
is a type of: bourgeois, businessperson - a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
subtypes:
- black marketeer - someone who engages illegally in trade in scarce or controlled commodities
- caterer - someone who provides food and service (as for a party)
- connection - a supplier (especially of narcotics)
- dispenser - a person who dispenses
- distributer, distributor - someone who markets merchandise
- purveyor - someone who supplies provisions (especially food)
- recruiter - someone who supplies members or employees
- stockist - one (as a retailer or distributor) that stocks goods
- provisioner, sutler, victualer, victualler - a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army
same as: supplier
Someone who provides the means for subsistence (synset 110505934)
is a type of: benefactor, helper - a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help)