provisioner

Questions about provisioner

What does provisioner mean?

provisioner means "a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army".

How many syllables are in provisioner?

provisioner has 5 syllables and divides as pro-vi-si-o-ner under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for provisioner?

Close synonyms include sutler, victualer, victualler. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is provisioner a common word?

provisioner is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.