PROVIDER as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • someone who provides the means for subsistence
   
   Hypernyms(s) provider is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • benefactor (what does benefactor mean?)
   • helper (what does helper mean?)
   
   Derived(s)
   • provide (what does provide mean?)
   • supply (what does supply mean?)
   • ply (what does ply mean?)
   • cater (what does cater mean?)
2. Meaning
   • someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity
   
   Synonym(s)
   • supplier (what does supplier mean?)
   
   Hypernyms(s) provider is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • businessperson (what does businessperson mean?)
   • bourgeois (what does bourgeois mean?)
   
   Hyponym(s)
   • black marketeer (what does black marketeer mean?)
   • caterer (what does caterer mean?)
   • connection (what does connection mean?)
   • dispenser (what does dispenser mean?)
   • distributor (what does distributor mean?)
   • distributer (what does distributer mean?)
   • purveyor (what does purveyor mean?)
   • recruiter (what does recruiter mean?)
   • stockist (what does stockist mean?)
   • sutler (what does sutler mean?)
   • victualer (what does victualer mean?)
   • victualler (what does victualler mean?)
   • provisioner (what does provisioner mean?)
   
   Derived(s)
   • supply (what does supply mean?)
   • provide (what does provide mean?)
   • render (what does render mean?)
   • furnish (what does furnish mean?)
   • supply (what does supply mean?)
   • provide (what does provide mean?)
   • render (what does render mean?)
   • furnish (what does furnish mean?)