Definition of Provisioner

1. Noun. A supplier of victuals or supplies to an army.

Exact synonyms: Sutler, Victualer, Victualler
Generic synonyms: Provider, Supplier
Derivative terms: Provision, Victual, Victual

Definition of Provisioner

1. Noun. one who supplies provisions ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Provisioner

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Provisioner

provings
provining
proviolence
proviolent
proviral
provirus
proviruses
provision
provisional
provisional job
provisionality
provisionally
provisionals
provisionary
provisioned
provisioner
provisioners
provisioning
provisions
proviso
proviso quod
provisoes
provisor
provisorily
provisors
provisorship
provisorships
provisory
provisos
provisour

Literary usage of Provisioner

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Government Control of the Meat-packing Industry: Hearings Before the by Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States, Senate, Congress, House (1919)
"No meat-packing concern has any interest whatsoever, directly or indirectly, in the Food Trade Publishing Co. or in the National Provisioner. ..."

2. The Analyst by Society of Public Analysts (Great Britain). (1880)
"... even for an hour, and milk businesses would not be found to be so lucrative an investment as they are at present, according to the Provisioner, ..."

3. Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on the Beef Industry, March 3, 1905 by United States Bureau of Corporations (1905)
"The National Provisioner, in the editorial columns of its issue for July 4,1903, ... The National Provisioner estimates that 35 per cent of the dressed beef ..."

4. The Hydrogenation of Oils: Catalyzers and Catalysis and the Generation of by Carleton Ellis (1914)
"The editor of the National Provisioner comments on the foregoing as follows: "It is evident that ... Editorial note in National Provisioner, Dec. 27, 1913. ..."

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