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parent
noun as in person, source of product
Strong matches
ancestor, architect, author, begetter, cause, center, creator, folks, forerunner, fountainhead, guardian, origin, originator, progenitor, prototype, root, source, wellspring
Weak match
Example Sentences
The Obama-era National Labor Relations Board’s joint-employer rule put parent companies on the hook for labor violations of their franchisees if they exercised “indirect control” over the employment conditions of their workers.
Another transfer puts Health and Human Services in charge of a grant program for parents who are attending college, along with management of foreign medical school accreditation.
“But I’m lucky to have such strong parents to guide me through.”
In reality they were precisely the same size and always had been; they were the sort of perfectly identical twins whose own parents struggled to tell them apart.
She assumed that her parents had brought her, but she could not actually picture them at Swanburne.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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