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Service provider for other service providers? (8)

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chaplain

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'service provider' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
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(Other definitions for chaplain that I've seen before include "Clergyman attached to an institution, such as the army" , "Member of clergy ministering to an organisation" , "Christian clergyman attached to an institution, military body etc" , "Member of the clergy, in 24 ac say" , "man of the cloth" .)

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