Qu'est-ce (qui) est purvey - définition
ANCIENT RIGHT OF ENGLISH MONARCHS TO REQUISITION GOODS
Purveys; Purveyances; Purvey; Prise
purvey
(purveys, purveying, purveyed)
1.
If you purvey something such as information, you tell it to people. (FORMAL)
...one who would, for a hefty fee, purvey strategic advice to private corporations.
VERB: V n
2.
If someone purveys goods or services, they provide them. (FORMAL)
They have two restaurants that purvey dumplings and chicken noodle soup.
= supply, sell
VERB: V n
purvey
v. n.
1.
Provide, furnish, cater, procure provisions, provide food, victual, find provision.
2.
Procure, get, obtain.
Wikipédia
Purveyance
Purveyance was an ancient prerogative right of the English Crown to purchase provisions and other necessaries for the royal household, at an appraised price, and to requisition horses and vehicles for royal use. It was finally abolished in 1660.
Exemples de prononciation pour purvey
1. These movements as a whole purvey discrimination
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2. of that purvey, it can be problematic. And so, there's a sense in my mind that you're
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Exemples du corpus de texte pour purvey
1. You have to take your hat off to the companies who purvey labour–saving – even labour–free – food to caterers.
2. Equally disturbingly, Saudi Arabia has used its vast oil wealth to purvey on a global scale the austere Wahhabist strain of Islam on which the Saud dynasty‘s legitimacy rests, but which poisons young minds and fuels murderous anti–Jewish and anti–western resentment.
3. Martin Luther King once put it, is "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today." I will not prophesy that the evil, dangerous persons (including fundamentalist Christians and secular Jewish neocons) responsible for the war on Iraq will purvey a Good Friday assault on Iran.
4. Sir Christopher, whose book, DC Confidential, was described by Mr Wright as a "disreputable enterprise," was personally accused of telling lies by one MP and put under pressure by the committee to resign as chairman of the independent Press Complaints Commission (PCC). Article continues Mr Price, whose book, The Spin Doctor‘s Diary, was said to purvey "gossip and tittle–tattle" and was originally branded "completely unacceptable" by Lord Turnbull, the former cabinet secretary, was accused of publishing for financial gain.