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to purvey

to purvey

3 7.0
To supply goods or services to customers, usually as a business
  • verb
  • /pərˈveɪ/
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  • The company aims to purvey high-quality organic food to local restaurants.
  • images purveyed

So yeah, that would be a powerful posture to purvey.

Examples

  • Through television, materialistic values are purveyed all over the world and spread the belief that people should acquire as much as they can.

    Academic text (2002)

  • Pork's wholesale division turned a fine profit purveying sausages and sliced meats to restaurants, including Crown's Bierstube.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • We see from this reporting that, once again, what is purveyed as reality has little resemblance to it.

    Blog text (26)

  • To the Neue Richtung, education was a product to be purveyed to the library user.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Over a hundred vendors set up booths purveying their finest costume jewelry, housewares, ephemera, clothing, and more.

    Blog text (24)

  • Decent journalism is now rare, having been supplanted by ideologues who don't blanch at purveying their personal agendas.

    Blog text (8)

  • She decided to purvey information about healthy living through her blog.

  • Their business specializes in purveying customized gift baskets for special occasions.

Synonyms

to issue
vsto purvey
  • Formal
904 2.5

To officially give documents or supplies to people

is broader and commercial rather than limited to official giving
to market
vsto purvey
172 2.8

To try to sell a product or service to people

is broader, supplying goods services or information beyond selling and promoting
to retail
vsto purvey
14 2.9

Sell goods to the public in small amounts for people to use

focuses more generally on supplying goods services or information in a professional capacity
to provision
vsto purvey
1 4.0

To supply someone with food or other needed items

covers supply commercially and also includes services and information beyond essentials

Antonyms

to withhold
210 5.1

Refuse to give something someone wants or needs

to deprive
198 3.2

To take something important away from someone or stop them having it

How Much

to distribute
87 2.0
supply
395 1.3
to purvey
3 7.0
to provide
∞ 1.5
to offer
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

purvey infinitive
purveyed past
purveyed past participle
purveying present participle
purveys third person singular

Etymology

Purvey comes from old French and Latin words that mean 'to see ahead', with the parts pro- ('before') and videre ('to see') and the same idea in the common word provide. So to purvey is to 'look ahead' and make things available, which is why it means to supply or sell goods or services.