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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpurveypur‧vey /pɜːˈveɪ $ pɜːr-/ verb [transitive] formalPROVIDE to supply goods, services, information etc to people DJ Dominic purveys a unique brand of music.→ See Verb table
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purvey• We come at last to be the lies that we purvey.• People fake expertise about it, use it to purvey fakery and may even fake their own identities.• A judge and landlord, he throve on amateur metaphysics and early anthropology, purveying monkey theories almost a century ahead of Darwin.• The hardest part of pageant preparation is not the purveying of personal grooming products.
Origin purvey (1100-1200) Old French porveeir, from Latin providere; → PROVIDE
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