PROVIDER Synonyms

• a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help)

• a custodian who is hired to take care of something (property or a person)

• an official who performs the duties of an office temporarily

• someone who provides food and service (as for a party)

• someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money

• a writer whose work is published in a newspaper or magazine or as part of a book

• person who makes a gift of property

• (medicine) someone who gives blood or tissue or an organ to be used in another person (the host)

• someone who devotes himself completely

• person who makes a gift of property

• a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army

• someone who supplies provisions (especially food)

• the place where something begins, where it springs into being

• a document (or organization) from which information is obtained

• anything that provides inspiration for later work

• a facility where something is available

• a person who supplies information

• someone who originates or causes or initiates something

• (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system

• anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies

• a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to

• get (a product) from another country or business

• specify the origin of

• someone who manages property or other affairs for someone else

• the ship's officer who is in charge of provisions and dining arrangements

• an attendant on an airplane

• a union member who is elected to represent fellow workers in negotiating with management

• one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals

• a person who backs a politician or a team etc.

• someone who supports or champions something

• a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose

• a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve)

• a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise