Provider

Definition: Provider

Provider

Noun

1. Someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity.

2. Someone who provides the means for subsistence.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "provider" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references)

Computing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Provider

Crosswords: Provider

The Joy Provider (1925)

Patient Provider Luke (1916)

Professor Puddenhead's Patents: The Aerocab and the Vacuum Provider (1909)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Asp Configuration Handbook: Application Service Provider (reference)

• Clinical Guide to Pharmacotherapeutics for the Primary Care Provider, 1999/2000 (reference)

• Closeted Screams: A Service Provider Handbook for Same-Sex Domestic Violence Issues (reference)

• Provider Report Cards: A Guide for Promoting Health Care Quality to the Public (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• 401k Provider Directory (reference)

• Child Care Provider (reference)

• Medicare Mnt Provider (reference)

• Provider (reference)

• Provider Magazine (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Michael Bolton: Soul Provider (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Provider (reference)

• Soul Provider (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• DS3 PROVIDER UNIT -AC POWER (reference)

• UPG-V SERV PROVIDER ED. W2K/NT (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

An EMT is a skilled professional life-saving house call-making prayer-saying.... : Support your local emergency medical services provider. / New Mexico...EMS Bureau, Health Services Division, HED. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Visit your health care provider. (references)

Choice of care provider is restricted. (references)

Talk with your health care provider if you have any questions. (references)

Business

Another healthcare provider in Beijing offers personal evacuations. (references)

Lucent is supplying independent service provider Techtel, Winstar and Velocom. (references)

For more than 60 years it was the only provider of telecommunication services. (references)

Children

Guatemala

The PDH reported that the National Hospital for Mental Health, the dominant healthcare provider for persons with mental illness, lacks basic supplies and equipment. (references)

Civil Liberties

Yemen

Teleyemen, a parastatal company under the Ministry of Telecommunications, is the country's sole Internet service provider. (references)

Peru

In April the only remaining overtly pro-Fujimori television station affiliated with pro-Fujimori daily Expreso, CCN, lost its cable frequency, ostensibly due to a commercial dispute with the near-monopoly cable provider, Cable Magico. (references)

Economic History

Guinea

SOTELGUI, Guinea's largest cellular and Internet service provider, reported 44,049 cellular phone service subscribers in 1999 and expected to expand services to 100,000 users in 2000. SOTELGUI currently has over 1000 Internet subscribers. (references)

Denmark

The Danish National Telecom Authority has designated the former incumbent TDC as the universal service obligation (USO) provider from January 1998 to December 2007. Other providers that have a nationwide market share of 50% or more in the provision of services included in the universal service obligation could also be appointed USO providers, but that is not expected for a number of years. (references)

Denmark

An USO provider can be compensated for deficits only if the deficits are documented and a public tendering procedure is initiated to appoint one or more alternative USO providers. (references)

Human Rights

Turkey

Since September the Diyarbakir torture treatment center has been under government investigation on the grounds that it had not obtained necessary permission from the Health Ministry to operates as a health care provider. (references)

Angola

The Constitution provides for the creation of an Office of the Provider of Justice, or Ombudsman, designated by the National Assembly for a 4-year-term, to defend citizens' rights and liberties. (references)

Lebanon

In August 2000, government officials raided the office of an Internet service provider (ISP), based on allegations that the ISP was distributing pornographic materials through the operation of a Web site aimed at the homosexual community. (references)

Political Economy

ALGERIA

On July 31, 2001, a second GSM license was awarded to Orascom, an Egyptian firm that expects to start providing services in February 2002. The second state-owned firm to be created will be an ISP provider and will compete with other providers. (references)

BANGLADESH

At present, the United States, with 84 industrial projects (worth roughly $4.5 billion in potential investment outlays) registered by the Bangladesh Board of Investment (BOI), is the top provider of direct investment to Bangladesh. (references)

URUGUAY

A law allowing foreign companies to offer insurance, except work-related injury, coverage in Uruguay was passed in October 1993, although the former monopoly provider still maintains a big market share and regulation of the insurance sector is weak. (references)

Travel

South Africa

South African Airways, sharing a codeshare partnership with Delta Airlines, is currently the sole provider of direct flights to South Africa from New York's Kennedy Airport. (references)

Australia

You will need to make prior arrangements with your communications carrier or service provider to ensure you are able to use your cellular phone in Australia. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "provider": abortion provider ♦ air cargo service provider ♦ application service provider ♦ capability provider ♦ competitive Access Provider ♦ data Link Provider Interface ♦ health care provider ♦ internet Access Provider ♦ internet Service Provider ♦ Preferred Provider Organizations ♦ provider state ♦ service provider ♦ service provider code ♦ service provider code group ♦ service provider personalisation ♦ transport service provider. Additional references.

Beginning with "provider": provider-centred, provider-client, Provider-Sponsored, Provider-Sponsored Organizations.

Ending with "provider": purchaser-provider.

Albanian

ekonomat (contriver, supplier). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مقاول (contractor, entrepreneur, undertaker), ‏متعهد (committed, contractor, cultivated, developer, entrepreneur, promoter, steward, undertaker), ‏مزود (beaded, furnisher, provisioner, supplier), ‏معيل, ‏الممون (purveyor). (various references)

Bulgarian 

глава на семейство (breadwinner, house-father, householder, master, paterfamilias), доставчик (caterer, contractor, procurer, purveyor). (various references)

Chinese 

提供者 (supplier). (various references)

Czech

chlebodárce (employer). (various references)

Danish

udbyder af operatørtjenester (operator service provider, OS provider), TS-tilvejebringer (transport service provider, TS-provider), transporttjenesteyder (transport service provider, TS-provider), transporttjenestegiver (transport service provider, TS-provider), internetudbyder (access provider, commercial access provider, Internet Access Provider), internetleverandør (access provider, commercial access provider, Internet Access Provider), afregningsinstitut (clearing house, settlement provider). (various references)

Dutch

provider, Internet-aanbieder. (various references)

Farsi 

مهیاکننده , بدست اورنده (Catcher, Securer). (various references)

Finnish

puhelunvälityspalvelun tarjoaja (operator service provider, OS provider), palvelukeskus (Access service provider, service bureau), selvityspalvelujen tarjoaja (clearing house, settlement provider), kuljetuspalvelun tarjoaja (transport service provider, TS-provider). (various references)

French

pourvoyeur, fournisseur d'accès (access provider, commercial access provider, Internet Access Provider), fournisseur. (various references)

German

versorger (breadwinner, feeder, provisioner, supplier), ernährer (breadwinner). (various references)

Greek 

προμηθευτήσ (caterer, expediter, furnisher, procurer, provisioner, purveyor, supplier), χορηγόσ (bestower, staker). (various references)

Hebrew 

מפר� ס (breadwinner, maintainer, supporter). (various references)

Hungarian

gondoskodó, ellátó (supplier). (various references)

Italian

fornitore (furnisher, outfitter, purveyor, stockist, supplier, victualer). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

金穴 (a gold mine, a provider of funds), 金庫 (provider of funds, safe, treasury, vault), イン�"ーダンス整合 (impedance matching, infant, inferiority complex, inferno, infield fly, infighting, informal, informal dress, informal organization, information, information analyst, information broker, information commercial, information democracy, information disclosure, information gap, information literacy, information processing, information processor, information provider, information retrieval, information revolution, information science, information society, information syndicate, information system, information theory, information utility, informed consent, informer, infrastructure). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

き�"�" (confinement, early modern age, imprisonment, now and anciently, provider of funds, safe, treasury, vault), き�"けつ (a gold mine, a provider of funds, running out of money), かねぐら (provider of funds, safe, treasure house, treasury, vault), インフォメーションプロバイダー (information provider). (various references)

Korean 

공급자 (supplier). (various references)

Manx

kiareyder (purveyor, resolver), fer cosnee. (various references)

Norwegian

leverandør. (various references)

Pig Latin

oviderpray

Portuguese

provedor, fornecedor (caterer, furnisher, outfitter, purveyor), abastecedor (clicker, outfitter, purveyor, victualler). (various references)

Russian 

кормилец семьи. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

snabdevač (charging point, outfitter, purveyor, supplier, victualler), nabavljač (procurer, supplier). (various references)

Spanish

proveedor (caterer, provisioner, purveying, purveyor, supplier, tradesman, victualer), abastecedor (caterer, outfitter). (various references)

Swedish

föreskrivare. (various references)

Turkish

sağlayan (supply), karşılayan kimse, geçindiren kimse, bakan kimse (beholder, tender). (various references)

Ukrainian

годувальник (bread winner, wage earner), постачальник (furnisher, manufacturer, procurer, provisioner, provisor, purveyor). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người cung cấp (supplier). (various references)

Welsh

darparwr. (various references)

u-a. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "provider": providers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Provider" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: povder, Prevezer, privier, Procida, progier, providal, providee, providi, providor, providur, Provita, Sprovieri. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: provide.

-2 letters: devoir, dopier, dorper, driver, drover, period, proved, prover, ropier, voider.

-3 letters: direr, diver, doper, drier, drive, drove, order, pedro, pored, pride, pried, prier, prior, prove, redip, repro, rider, riped, riper, rived, river, roped, roper, roved, rover, video, viper, vireo.

-4 letters: dire, dive, doer, dope, dore, dorp, dorr, dove, drip, drop, ired, oped.

+1 letter: providers.

+2 letters: overpriced, overprized.

+3 letters: disapprover, overpraised, overprinted.

+4 letters: disapprovers, overlordship, overpromised, prediscovery, prerogatived, reproductive, videographer.

+5 letters: overimpressed, overlordships, overproducing, overspreading, reproductives, reprovisioned, videographers.