provisioners

noun

plural of provisioner
as in providers

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  1. providers
  2. suppliers
  3. distributors
  4. purveyors
  5. entrepreneurs
  6. buyers
Noun
  • The White House said the $90 payments for seniors would come from the Medicare Improvement Fund, established by Congress in 2008 as flexible funding to improve program operations and payments to healthcare providers.
    — Melissa Goldin, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026
  • The grim findings come from a survey of 524 disability care providers published Wednesday by ANCOR, an advocacy group for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
    — STAT, STAT, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of providers
Noun
  • The cuts will affect some, but not all, suppliers’ October production volumes, depending on their lead times.
    — Fernanda Tronco, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Expanding final assembly facilities must therefore be matched by reliable deliveries from suppliers and sufficient skilled labour across the wider production network.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of suppliers
Noun
  • Despite the cool reception from distributors, the pair haven’t given up, and still plan on shopping their movie to either a streamer or theatrical distributor.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2026
  • Netflix leads all distributors with 35 total nominations across film and television, while Neon secured an impressive 21 film nominations despite being a smaller distributor.
    — Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 11 Jan. 2026
Definition of distributors
Noun
  • Many tea purveyors advise against leaving sweet tea out at room temperature for more than two hours.
    — Natalia Vela, Southern Living, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Some states have taken action against purveyors of limited-partner policies.
    — Julie Appleby, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of purveyors
Noun
  • Honestly on the scale of image-rehab to complete evisceration, Amodei is one of the few AI entrepreneurs to end up closer to the former in this film.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026
  • After all, since most startups tend to fail, confidence is a value that successful entrepreneurs have to sustain.
    — Raghupathy Sivakumar, The Conversation, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of entrepreneurs
Noun
  • Trade-in buyers with negative equity financed $11,164 more than the typical new car buyer.
    — Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
Definition of buyers
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