provider

pro·vid·er  (pr-vdr)

n.

1. One who supplies a means of subsistence: parents who were good providers.

2. One that makes something, such as a service, available: primary health care providers.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	provider - someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity supplier black marketeer - someone who engages illegally in trade in scarce or controlled commodities bourgeois, businessperson - a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise caterer - someone who provides food and service (as for a party) connection - a supplier (especially of narcotics) dispenser - a person who dispenses distributer, distributor - someone who markets merchandise purveyor - someone who supplies provisions (especially food) recruiter - someone who supplies members or employees stockist - one (as a retailer or distributor) that stocks goods provisioner, sutler, victualer, victualler - a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army
	2.	provider - someone who provides the means for subsistence benefactor, helper - a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help)

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provider

noun 1. supplier, giver, source, donor, benefactor

noun 2. breadwinner, supporter, earner, mainstay, wage earner