Someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity

Usage examples of provider.

The Intellect subsisting in the totality is a provider for the particular intellects, is the potentiality of them: it involves them as members of its universality, while they in turn involve the universal Intellect in their particularity, just as the particular science involves science the total.

Her satphone provider was based in Houston and subject to the surveillance provisions of the Emergency Immigration Act.

The lead Tzaatz snarled the command by reflex, as startled as Provider was.

Fedafer of Ourdh, lord of the well-watered land, master of the great river, provider for the mouths of the millions, favored first son of Auros, living consort of Gingo-La, august excellence of the south wind, bringer of rain, sower of seed, king of Ajmer, king of Bogra, king of Patwa, high lord of Shogemessar, Emperor Banwi the Great, was crouched, shivering with fear, on a blue silk couch in the apartment of his Aunt Haruma.

As long as Jai never released Ardoise, no one would know that the emperor rather than his provider was the true Key.

More than any other reason, Aristos were hated because they used providers to transcend.

This approach will require close collaboration among researchers, their institutional biosafety officials and committees, and providers of these agents.

As neutrals, the Dutch, for whom commerce was the blood in their veins and seafaring as ocean navigators their primary practice, became the essential providers, and St.

Under the terms of his proposed Internet Service Providers Act, an independent agency would be set up arid given the right to sweep all email randomly, much as police had the right to point speedguns at road traffic.

The lessons ceased abruptly, and Bomba became the provider and protector of the little family of two.

Mental health providers in America are more likely by about two-to-one to be social workers than either psychiatrists or PhD psychologists.

The metallic forests that covered the world from pole to pole, provider of the heavy metals that power our traditional stardrives, have been completely harvested.

So, after Trapdoor had broken into CCU's computer Phate had driven from the Bay View Motel to this place, where his second laptop was warmed up and waiting for him, online via a virtually untraceable cell phone connection through a South Carolina Internet provider, linked to an anonymizing Net launch pad in Prague.

She had watched it happen many times during her nine years with the Argos Group, as that organization burgeoned from its original role as a provider of unique electronics to a worldwide deal broker and powerhouse.

But you, you grotesque little atavists, stare blindly at the skyscrapers and smokestacks around you and dream of enslaving the material providers who are scientists, inventors, industrialists.