Provide

//pɹəˈvaɪd// verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make a living; earn money for necessities.

    "It is difficult to provide for my family working on minimum wage."

  2. 2
    take measures in preparation for wordnet
  3. 3
    To act to prepare for something.

    "provide against disaster."

  4. 4
    determine (what is to happen in certain contingencies), especially by including a proviso condition or stipulation wordnet
  5. 5
    To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.

    "The contract provides that the work be well done."

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  1. 6
    give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance wordnet
  2. 7
    To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.

    "Don't bother bringing equipment, as we will provide it."

  3. 8
    supply means of subsistence; earn a living wordnet
  4. 9
    To furnish (with), cause to be present, supply.

    "Rome […] was generally well provided with corn."

  5. 10
    give something useful or necessary to wordnet
  6. 11
    To make possible or attainable.

    "He provides us with an alternative option."

  7. 12
    mount or put up wordnet
  8. 13
    To foresee, to consider in advance. Latinism, obsolete

    "We have not been covetous, honourable fathers, to change, neither is it now any new lust that alters our affection, or old lothing, but those needful jealousies of state, that warn wiser princes hourly to provide their safety, and do teach them how learned a thing it is to beware of the humblest enemy; much more of those great ones, whom their own employed favours have made fit for their fears."

  9. 14
    make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain wordnet
  10. 15
    To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.

    "provide such natives to the higher dignities of the church"

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English providen, from Latin prōvidēre (“to foresee, act with foresight”). Doublet of purvey.

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