private provider

collocation in English

meaningsofprivateandprovider

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private
adjective
uk
/ˈpraɪ.vət/
us
/ˈpraɪ.vət/
only for one person or group and not ...
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provider
noun[C]
uk
/prəˈvaɪ.dər/
us
/prəˈvaɪ.dɚ/
someone who ...
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(Definition ofprivateandproviderfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprivate provider

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Risk factors for improper vaccine storage and handling inprivateprovideroffices.
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Where these kinds of problem are not handled carefully, a firm may lose numerous dissatisfied staff, and this has been the case for at least one largeprivateprovider.
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If the authority decides to provide services it will then go on to arrange these services, probably through aprivateprovider.
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I interpret "doing all the rest of it" as including quality assurance for theprivateprovider.
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If the potential provider in one of those areas were aprivateprovider, we would work in partnership to ensure that places were available.
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Would they rather see the poorest people have no access to health care, rather than go to aprivateprovider?
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It could even be claimed that the accountability of theprivateprovideris more stringent than that of the public provider who, by definition, cannot go out of business.
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For those who could not afford the cost of seeing theprivateprovider, the alternative was to go to the local kiosk and buy a cough sweet.
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This could prevent other municipalities in that region from benefiting from the services of theprivateprovider.
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The loans are originally dedicated to households, which act as smallprivateproviderselling water in bulk or in buckets.
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As aprivateprovider, fees are charged to patients.
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The municipality had the choice of either providing service themselves or to contract it out to aprivateprovider.
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Figure 1 illustrates the dynamic response when private providers receive a tax-financed subsidy from the government.
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The public sector could also transfer some responsibilities of device operation to private providers.
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It is designed mainly to give employees access to private providers whose services are not reimbursed under social security provisions.
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Large private providers may therefore deliver relatively high quality care, but this tends to be standardised across all their homes.
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An increase in the role for private providers was seen only in the area of elective surgery.
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To the extent that provision is considered at all, reforms are directed at allowing greater autonomy to private providers and increasing competition among them.
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By contrast, a subsidy to private providers in a laissez-faire economy is the preferred regime when the externality is large.
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