purveyor

  • 21purveyor — noun someone who supplies provisions (especially food) (Freq. 1) • Derivationally related forms: ↑purvey • Hypernyms: ↑supplier, ↑provider …

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  • 22pourveyor, or purveyor — /parveyar/ A buyer; one who provided for the royal household …

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  • 23purvey — purveyor pur‧vey‧or [pɜːˈveɪə ǁ pɜːrˈveɪər] noun [countable] COMMERCE a person or company that supplies goods or services to people, especially food or drink: • The company established a reputation as a purveyor of fine wines. purvey verb… …

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  • 24SCHLESINGER — SCHLESINGER, family of Austrian court jews . MARX (MORDECAI) SCHLESINGER, son of Moses Margulies (margelioth ), was active as military purveyor to the Austrian court before the 1670 expulsion of Vienna Jews, as well as financier to the court and… …

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  • 25Bait and switch — In retail sales, a bait and switch is a form of fraud in which the party putting forth the fraud lures in customers by advertising a product or service at an unprofitably low price, then reveals to potential customers that the advertised good is… …

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  • 26Quality of experience — (QoE), some times also known as Quality of User Experience, is a subjective measure of a customer s experiences with a vendor. It looks at a vendor s or purveyor s offering from the standpoint of the customer or end user, and asks, What mix of… …

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  • 27USS J. C. Kuhn (1859) — was a capacious bark acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a stores ship in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways. A wooden bark with two decks and three masts J. C. Kuhn …

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  • 28Herend Porcelain — ( Herendi Porcelánmanufaktúra Zrt. ) is a Hungarian manufacturing company, specializing in luxury hand painted and gilded porcelain. Founded in 1826, it is based in the town of Herend near the city of Veszprém.In the mid 19th century it was… …

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  • 29purvey — UK [pə(r)ˈveɪ] / US [pərˈveɪ] verb [transitive] Word forms purvey : present tense I/you/we/they purvey he/she/it purveys present participle purveying past tense purveyed past participle purveyed formal to provide information, ideas, or products… …

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  • 30OPPENHEIMER, SAMUEL — (1630–1703), Austrian court jew and military contractor. He began his career in Heidelberg as purveyor to the elector, Karl Ludwig, and tax collector of palatinate Jewry. Subsequently he moved to vienna where he received the right of unlimited… …

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