proveditor

From Italian proveditore, provveditore, from provedere, Latin providere. See provide. Doublet of purveyor and provedore.

proveditor (plural proveditors)

1. One employed to procure supplies, as for an army, a steamer, etc.; a purveyor; one who provides for another.
   • 1649, Jeremy Taylor, The Great Exemplar: Or, The Life of Our Ever-blessed Saviour Jesus Christ:

     The entertainment, that S. John's Proveditore the Angel gave him.

• “proveditor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from Italian provveditore.

proveditor m (plural proveditori)

1. (historical) superintendent

• proveditor in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN