n
The act of one who assumes the mantle.
n
Alternative spelling of bailout [A rescue, especially a financial rescue.]
v
To veto a portion of a budget.
n
A short, hand-written communication to thank someone who has recently provided the writer with hospitality, usually dinner or an overnight visit.
n
One who, or that which, captures.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To provide with food, especially for a special occasion as a professional service.
n
An account which a prisoner uses to buy provisions, or the balance of that account.
n
An enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined.
n
A person who founds or builds a conglomerate (business)
n
(obsolete) A conservatory.
n
A person or company that performs specific tasks like electrical or plumbing work in construction projects.
n
The person to whom something is delivered.
n
One who avoids military service; a draft dodger.
adj
(obsolete) Relating to an emporium, or to merchandise.
v
(transitive) To put on the throne in a formal installation ceremony called enthronement, equivalent to (and often combined with) coronation and/or other ceremonies of investiture
v
(transitive) To furnish with groceries.
n
A person who harbours another.
v
(chiefly US) To lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law.
n
A historical event in which previously restricted land of the United States was opened for homesteading on a first-come-first-served basis.
n
An allowance of food; a ration, as given out to a family, to servants, to horses, etc.
n
(US, immigration law) The permission for a foreigner who does not meet the technical requirements for a visa to be allowed to enter the U.S. on humanitarian grounds.
n
(chiefly US politics, often attributively) State funds as assigned for local or regional expenditure; especially, central money used for regional projects which are eyecatching or designed to appeal to voters.
n
(obsolete) One who produces, or provides for inspection.
n
(obsolete) provender; food
n
Alternative form of provedore [A person or business which provides supplies, particularly food and beverages.]
n
(Scotland) provisions, especially for an army
n
One who, or that which, provides a service, commodity, or the means for subsistence.
n
Alternative form of provider [One who, or that which, provides a service, commodity, or the means for subsistence.]
n
One who makes provision; a purveyor.
n
An item of goods or supplies, especially food, obtained for future use.
n
one who supplies provisions
n
Obsolete form of purveyor. [Someone who supplies what is needed, especially food.]
n
Something or someone turned to for safety or assistance; a recourse or resort.
n
A person who is assigned responsibility for daily care of a person with a chronic illness and for working with the health care professionals.
n
(law) Abbreviation of restaurant. [An eating establishment in which diners are served food, usually by waiters at their tables but sometimes (as in a fast food restaurant) at a counter.]
n
One who salves or saves goods, etc. from destruction or loss.
n
(obsolete) Rank; grade; station; estimation.
n
One who sources something.
n
Support offered to an imprisoned offender before and during the time when he/she returns to the community.
n
(rare) One who undertakes or commits to doing something.
n
One who upbears or upholds.
n
Someone who upholds something.
n
One who ushers in something.
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