- supplier, provider - someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity
--1 is a kind of businessperson, bourgeois
--1 has particulars:black marketeer; caterer; connection; dispenser; distributor, distributer; purveyor; recruiter; stockist; sutler, victualer, victualler, provisioner Derived form: verb provide1 - provider - someone who provides the means for subsistence
--2 is a kind of benefactor, helper
Derived form: verb provide2