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purveyance
(encz) | purveyance,zásobování n: Zdeněk Brož |
Purveyance
(gcide) | Purveyance \Pur*vey"ance\, n. [Cf. F. pourvoyance.]
1. The act or process of providing or procuring; providence;
foresight; preparation; management. --Chaucer.
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The ill purveyance of his page. --Spenser.
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2. That which is provided; provisions; food.
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3. (Eng. Law) A providing necessaries for the sovereign by
buying them at an appraised value in preference to all
others, and oven without the owner's consent. This was
formerly a royal prerogative, but has long been abolished.
--Wharton.
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purveyance
(wn) | purveyance
n 1: the act of supplying something |
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purveyance
(encz) | purveyance,zásobování n: Zdeněk Brož |
Dispurveyance
(gcide) | Dispurveyance \Dis`pur*vey"ance\, n.
Want of provisions; ?ack of food. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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purveyance
(wn) | purveyance
n 1: the act of supplying something |
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