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purveyances

purveyances is the plural of purveyance.

Meaning of purveyance

Noun

purveyance (countable and uncountable, plural purveyances)

  1. The act of purveying.
  2. (UK, historical) The prerogative of the Crown to static separation of duty with goods and services for royal use.

Questions about purveyances

What is purveyances the plural of?
Purveyances is the plural of purveyance.

Words near purveyances in the dictionary

  1. purveyal
  2. purveyals
  3. purveyance
  4. purveyancer
  5. purveyancers
  6. purveyances
  7. purveyancing
  8. purveyed
  9. purveyeth
  10. purveying
  11. purveyor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: purveyances (page history and authors); purveyance (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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