Word of the Week #2

Purveyor

Source: Does Twitter Threaten Google?

How it was used: “Moorman's analysis seems timely. Study after study indicates that readers, consumers and internet users trust the word of their peer more than the word of the purveyor.”

Definition:
pur⋅vey⋅or
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–noun
1. a person who purveys, provides, or supplies: a purveyor of foods; a purveyor of lies.
2. Old English Law. An officer who provided or acquired provisions for the sovereign under the prerogative of purveyance.

Your sentence: The tenant gave the rent to the landlord, the purveyor of his shelter, each month.