purveyors

Noun

purveyor (plural purveyors)

1. One who purveys (“furnishes, provides; gets, procures”); a supplier; specifically, one in the business of supplying food or other necessary material goods; a provisioner.
   • The merchants are the purveyors of fine selections.

   Synonyms:

   achatour, chandler, proveditor, provedore, provisor

   1. (UK, historical) An officer who obtained provisions such as accommodation and food for the household of a monarch or some other high-ranking person; also, an officer in charge of obtaining provisions for an army, a city, etc.
      • groom purveyor yeoman purveyor
2. (figuratively) A person or group that promotes or spreads an idea, a viewpoint, etc.
   • purveyors of false information
3. (obsolete) One who arranges or prepares something; an arranger, an orchestrator, a preparer.
   • That certayn servantes of sir Fraunces Knowles [Francis Knollys?] and other [resorting to his lectures] fell owte amonge themselfes, and were lyke to have commytted murther, and therefore he was suer of sedition and prevyer of unlawfull assemblies.1571 (date written), Thomas Purye?, “The Defence of Thomas Thackham, Minister, in His Conduct towards Julins Palmer. [An Answere to a Slaunder Untruely Reported by Mr. [John] Foxe, in a Certen Boke...