单词 | purvey |
释义 | purvey 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 tableExamples from the Corpuspurvey• 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.Origin purvey (1100-1200) Old French porveeir, from Latin providere; → PROVIDE |
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