purveyor

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.Examples: "groom purveyor    yeoman purveyor"; "Let therfore firſt and principall care be for competent prouiſion of victuall, namely bread corne, the vſe wherof is ſeene to be farre more neceſſary, then any other thinge and let there bee made three Purueyghours, or principall victuallers, to haue the ouerſighte, and ſurueighe of all victual, and make prouiſion of the ſame accordinglye: […]"; "[Y]et some there be of that nature, that though they be in private men, yet their evil reacheth to a general hurt, as the extortion of sheriffs and their sub-sheriffs, and bayliffes, the corruption of victuallers, cessors, and purveyors, the disorders of seneschalls, captaines, and their souldiers, and many such like: […]"Synonyms: achatour, chandler, proveditor, provedore, provisor, foregoer, proveditorUKhistorical

2. (figurative) A person or group that promotes or spreads an idea, a viewpoint, etc.Examples: "purveyors of false information"figuratively

3. (obsolete) One who arranges or prepares something; an arranger, an orchestrator, a preparer.Examples: "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."obsolete