purvey

Word family

formalPROVIDE to supply goods, services, information etc to people 提供，供应〔货物、服务、信息等〕

DJ Dominic purveys a unique brand of music.

音乐节目主持人多米尼克播放一种独特的音乐。

Examples from the Corpus

purvey• We come at last to be the lies that we purvey.• People fake expertise about it, use it to purvey fakery and may even fake their own identities.• A judge and landlord, he throve on amateur metaphysics and early anthropology, purveying monkey theories almost a century ahead of Darwin.• The hardest part of pageant preparation is not the purveying of personal grooming products.

Origin purvey

(1100-1200) Old French porveeir, from Latin providere; → PROVIDE

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Corpus

BNC: 32689 COCA: 28860

purvey

Someone who gives: giver, donor, backer...