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PROVANT

Definition: PROVANT

PROVANT

Adjective

1. Provided for common or general use, as in an army; hence, common in quality; inferior.

Transitive verb

1. To supply with provender or provisions; to provide for.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "PROVANT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Commercial Usage: PROVANT

Domain	Title
References	Provant, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	PROVANT, INC.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: PROVANT

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
provant	27
media provant	4
provant inc	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: PROVANT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-n-o-p-r-t-v"
	-1 letter: parton, patron, tarpon.
	-2 letters: aport, apron, panto, parvo, trona, vapor.
	-3 letters: arvo, atop, nota, nova, pant, part, porn, port, prao, prat, proa, rant, rapt, rato, roan, rota, tarn, taro, tarp, tora, torn, trap, trop.
	-4 letters: ant, apt, art, avo, nap, nor, not, oar, oat, opt, ora, ort, ova, pan, par, pat, pot, pro, ran.
	Words containing the letters "a-n-o-p-r-t-v"
	+2 letters: davenport, overplant, privation.
	+3 letters: davenports, overplants, privations, provitamin.
	+4 letters: antipoverty, depravation, deprivation, evaporating, evaporation, inoperative, overpayment, overplanted, personative, provitamins, provocation.
	+5 letters: depravations, deprivations, evaporations, flavoprotein, nonoperative, overpayments, overplanting, photoengrave, preservation, privatdocent, privatdozent, providential, provocations, vaporization, vibraphonist, vituperation.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: PROVANT

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 52 4F 56 41 4E 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01010010 01001111 01010110 01000001 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#82 &#79 &#86 &#65 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0052 004F 0056 0041 004E 0054

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50524956354854

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams

5. Orthography
6. Bibliography

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