5 adjectives to describe providers

The small tradesman can no longer hold his own in the fight with the universal provider, or the co-operative store.

Robbers of their earnings, yet watchful sentinels round their interests, and kind providers for their comfort?

Yet why did he not address himself to the soil, man's everlasting provider and nurse?

All the while the true guilty would be placidly sitting down at still further unsavory banquets, which equally helpless providers were driven to furnish!

Nevertheless, the Government is the sole provider for the army, and assumes the main responsibility of the physical condition of its members.

5 adjectives to describe  providers