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purvey

/per-vey/US // pərˈveɪ //

资助,资助者,资助人,资助方

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to provide, furnish, or supply usually as a business or service.

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Examples

  • This was the message purveyed in a rash of new romance comics and magazines aimed specifically at young women, with titles such as Young Romance and Young Love.

  • So this feast was ended, and the Constable, by the advice of Anglides, let purvey that Alisander was well horsed and harnessed.

  • They used to send them out in pairs, sometimes to one district, and sometimes to another, to purvey food for them.

  • The wretches who gained the name of Resurrection men despoiled graveyards to purvey subjects for the dissecting knife.

  • Purvey himself contributes to this end by a definite statement of certain changes which may be allowed the English writer.

  • Purvey says, "Men might expound much openlier and shortlier the Bible than the old doctors have expounded it in Latin."