(n.) One who provides victuals, or whose business is to make provision for the table; a victualer; a caterer.
(n.) An officer who formerly provided, or exacted provision, for the king's household.
(n.) a procurer; a pimp; a bawd.
Example Sentences:
(1) The worst purveyors of hate, they’re emboldened by this election and they’re out in force.
(2) Here was the purveyor of nigh on a third of the nation’s food openly promising a cut that will be barely noticed over time by consumers but will have a positive health impact.
(3) He even has a soft spot for the Cockney Rejects, pugnacious purveyors of football singalongs.
(4) But in and among the general approval, there was the odd titter that such a well-established prize should find itself being backed by a purveyor of sticky drinks.
(5) But his core supporters have remained faithful, choosing to believe that the mainstream media are purveyors of fake news, rather than accept that the Trump presidency has not been the unrivalled success the president has claimed.
(6) Earlier this year we wrote about Gnod , Salford's finest purveyors of ambient sludge, prog-metal and murky motorik psych-drone space-rock.
(7) Instead, the least attractive aspects of London 2012, the ZiL lanes and the Visa-only policy and McDonald's and Coca-Cola as purveyors of sustenance to a sporting nation, were smothered not only by the competition but by the ocean of good humour fostered by the joviality of the volunteers, the inspirational architecture and the attention given to the natural landscape (with apologies to those who had to move to make room for it all).
(8) Josie Long Watching Josie Long evolve from purveyor of childlike whimsy to political agitator has been one of the pleasures of the last few festivals.
(9) One side of each carcass was fabricated using National Association of Meat Purveyors specifications.
(10) Phosphorus is also an energy purveyor during numerous biologic reactions, and depp deprivation may lead to a lot of pathologic situations, sometimes severe.
(11) It certainly looks over the top to me.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest “I would have loosened my grip.” Photograph: Screenshot via FoxNews.com Even Bill O’Reilly, the reliable hardass and purveyor of murderous ideation , seemed off his game.
(12) One rebuke to purveyors of a failing conventional wisdom, which may have been refined in the retelling , was "When the facts change, I change my mind.
(13) For Greeks, the IMF has a reputation as a merciless purveyor of fiscal delinquents, more usually associated with Latin America and other developing economies.
(14) The Beatles are now regularly credited with making pop acceptable, elevating it from the realms of teenage delinquency, and forcing critics in the Sunday papers to consider pop stars as thinkers, not just purveyors of teenage noise.
(15) But these platforms are by no means merely the purveyors of Smith’s invisible hand.
(16) But just as Oliver Stone has managed to make a boring sequel to Wall Street, despite the real Wall Street's enthralling and nigh-on-cinematic recent wickedness (the inner Freudian torment of boring Shia LaBoeuf's boring character is apparently more interesting to Stone – once the great purveyor of conspiracy theories – than the near-collapse of capitalism), so the makers of the upcoming films about Facebook have missed an obvious trick with their movies.
(17) There is a certain duty that comes with being the anointed purveyor of truth.
(18) This study reports on the value of head injury instruction cards as purveyors of information to patients.
(19) Liverpool also want Aston Villa's purveyor of wayward crosses Ashley Young and will obviously need a muscular, ponytail-sporting Geordie to get on the end of them; step forward £30m-rated Newcastle United No9 Andy Carroll .
(20) ) I would rather drink Bud (another St Louis product) than chomp on antacids.... looks like I need to hit the fridge for suds St Louis, purveyor of beer, ribs and Rolaids.
Surveyor
Definition:
(n.) One placed to superintend others; an overseer; an inspector.
(n.) One who views and examines for the purpose of ascertaining the condition, quantity, or quality of anything; as, a surveyor of highways, ordnance, etc.
(n.) One who surveys or measures land; one who practices the art of surveying.
(n.) An officer who ascertains the contents of casks, and the quantity of liquors subject to duty; a gauger.
(n.) In the United States, an officer whose duties include the various measures to be taken for ascertaining the quantity, condition, and value of merchandise brought into a port.
Example Sentences:
(1) Responses to a monthly survey of 450-500 surveyors (usually 250-300 reply).
(2) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
(3) The affordability and availability of homes in the UK “is now a national emergency” the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) said, as it warned that measures such as extending right-to-buy would prevent the new government reaching its target of 1m more homes by 2020.
(4) Surveyors who had been predicting that London would see price increases of 9% a year over the next five years had revised that down to just under 5%, while on a national level the forecast has edged down to 5%.
(5) Even six months ago few people outside Westminster’s building surveyors could have imagined removal as a serious possibility.
(6) The company has created an apprenticeship programme for surveyors as an alternative to university, although it also increased graduate recruits last year.
(7) Richard Sexton, director of business development at surveyor e.surv , said the CML figures masked the true picture of what was happening to the housing market nationwide: "It is bad news that overall house purchase lending was so weak in July, but the good news is that it has not turned out to be a UK-wide phenomenon.
(8) The surveyor is proud to announce, "I can assure my readers that Walden has a reasonably tight bottom at a not unreasonable, though at an unusual, depth."
(9) Further evidence of the accelerating housing market emerged on Monday when surveyors said they were more optimistic about the prospects for increasing sales than at any point in the last 14 years.
(10) Housing is a key issue and this does not give me any confidence that the department has a grip on its own figures.” Jeremy Blackburn, head of policy at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, said: “The NAO report has shown what was suspected by many.
(11) The group says new buyer enquiries in England and Wales rose for the third month in a row in January, with 16% more chartered surveyors reporting a rise as opposed to a fall.
(12) There is an added element of uncertainty as we wait to see the impact of tax changes on the buy-to-let sector.” The figures are backed up by the latest monthly survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics), which found the market was “unusually buoyant” in December.
(13) The balance of surveyors saying prices rose compared to those recording a fall stood at +9 percentage points in March, down from +18 points in February.
(14) Meanwhile, figures from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) published this week suggested interest from potential buyers is increasing.
(15) Although the housing market appears to have slowed, there seems to be no let-up in rising rents, and the most recent monthly report by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors predicted that they would rise at a faster pace than house prices over the next five years.
(16) In commercial property little impact was expected from events in China, says Jeff Matsu, senior economist at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
(17) Simon Rubinsohn, economist for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics), says: “Yields have been compressed and returns aren’t as attractive as they were.
(18) The average number of completed sales slipped, the number of properties up for sale fell back, and surveyors reported fewer buyer enquiries.
(19) Among the most important landlord firms Southern Cross will have to win over to survive is London & Regional, the investment empire of former optician Ian Livingstone and his chartered surveyor brother Richard.
(20) Simon Rubinsohn, chief economist at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, said the latest figures were "more evidence that the housing market is stabilising.