A supplier of victuals or supplies to an army.

synonyms: provisioner, victualer, victualler.

Roget 637: provision, supply; grist, grist for the mill; subvention etc. (aid) 707; resources etc. (means) 632; groceries, grocery.    providing etc. v.; purveyance; reinforcement, reenforcement^†; commissariat.    provender etc. (food) 298; ensilage; viaticum.    caterer, purveyor, commissary, quartermaster, manciple^†, feeder, batman, victualer, grocer, comprador [Sp.], restaurateur; jackal, pelican; sutler etc. (merchant) 797^†.    grocery shop, grocery store.    ... show more

Roget 797: merchant, trader, dealer, monger, chandler, salesman; changer; regrater^†; shopkeeper, shopman^†; tradesman, tradespeople, tradesfolk.    retailer; chapman, hawker, huckster, higgler^†; pedlar, colporteur, cadger, Autolycus^†; sutler^†, vivandiere^†; costerman^†, costermonger^†; tallyman; camelot; faker; vintner.    money broker, money changer, money lender; cambist^†, usurer, moneyer^†, banker.    jobber; broker etc. (agent) 758; buyer etc. 795; seller etc. 796; bear, bull.    concern; firm etc. (partnership) 712.    ... show more

Dutch: zoetelaar, proviandschip