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