provider

See also: Provider

English

Etymology

From provide +‎ -er. Since 15th century.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈvaɪ.də(ɹ)/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈvaɪ.dɚ/

  • Audio (Maryland):

    (file)

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈvɑɪ.də(ɹ)/

Noun

provider (plural providers)

1. One who, or that which, provides a service, commodity, or the means for subsistence.
   • 2012, S. Allegrezza, A. Dubrocard, Internet Econometrics, →ISBN:

     In view of this, it is clear why internet service providers (ISPs) are inclined to play a backbench role when it comes to combating file sharing.

   • 2013 June 19, Daniel Eran Dilger, “Inside iOS 7: iBeacons enhance apps' location awareness via Bluetooth LE”, in Apple Insider:

     Using BLE, a merchant or other provider can define more targeted "micro-locations" to trigger an alert, in some cases requiring that you be in the presence of an iBeacon in order to validate a Passbook entry.

   • 2013 September, Damien Ma, William Adams, “Welfare: Socialism with Chinese … Actually No, Not Socialism at All”, in In Line Behind a Billion People: How Scarcity Will Define China’s Ascent in the Next Decade, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: FT Press, →ISBN, part II (Social Scarcity), page 103:

     Even if policy shifts resources away from hard investment and back into social spending, the "Floridization" of Chinese demographics will intensify the shortage of healthcare provision over the next decade, worsening the frayed contract between patients, providers, and the government.

   • 2022 March 11, David Hytner, “Chelsea are in crisis but there is no will to leave club on their knees”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     A part of the nervousness at Chelsea involves whether any more sponsors will follow the telecommunications and internet service provider Three in withdrawing support, at least temporarily.

   • 2023 March 3, Tim Harford, “The enshittification of apps is real. But is it bad?”, in Financial Times‎^[2], London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 March 2023:

     Both switching costs and network effects tend to lead to enshittification because platform providers see early adopters as an investment in future profits.

Derived terms

• digital service provider
• health care service provider
• identity provider
• Internet service provider
• internet service provider
• lion's provider
• liquidity provider
• network provider
• preferred provider
• service provider
• sole provider
• web provider

Related terms

• provisioner, purveyor

Translations

provider

• Afrikaans: aanbieder (af)
• Armenian: մատակարար (hy) (matakarar)
• Bulgarian: доста́вчик m (dostávčik), доста́вчица f (dostávčica)
• Czech: poskytovatel (cs) m, poskytovatelka f
• Dutch: verlener (nl) m
• Finnish: tuottaja (fi)
• French: fournisseur (fr) m, fournisseuse (fr) f
• German: Versorger m, Versorgerin f, Anbieter (de) m, Anbieterin (de) f, Dienstleister (de) m, Dienstleisterin (de) f
• Greek: προμηθευτής (el) m (promitheftís), παροχέας (el) m (parochéas), πάροχος (el) m (párochos)
• Hungarian: szolgáltató (hu)
• Italian: fornitore (it) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tilbyder m, leverandør (no) m, forsørger m

• Polish: dostawca (pl) m, dostawczyni f, dostarczyciel m, dostarczycielka (pl) f
• Portuguese: fornecedor (pt) m
• Russian: прова́йдер (ru) (provájdɛr), (supplier) поставщи́к (ru) m (postavščík), поставщи́ца (ru) f (postavščíca)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: снабдевач m

  Roman: snabdevač (sh) m

• Spanish: suministrador (es) m, proveedor (es) m
• Turkish: sağlayıcı (tr)
• Ukrainian: прова́йдер m (provájder), (supplier) постача́льник m (postačálʹnyk), постача́льниця f (postačálʹnycja)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English provider.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌproːˈvɑi̯.dər/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: pro‧vi‧der

Noun

provider m (plural providers)

1. an Internet or telephone provider

Derived terms

• telefoonprovider

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English provider.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /proˈvaj.der/
• Rhymes: -ajder

Noun

provider m (invariable)

1. (Internet) ISP, internet service provider
2. (rare) provider

   Synonym: fornitore

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English provider.

Noun

provider m (plural provideri)

1. provider

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	provider	providerul		provideri	providerii
genitive-dative	provider	providerului		provideri	providerilor
vocative	providerule			providerilor