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Provide   /prəvˈaɪd/   Listen
Provide

verb
(past & past part. provided; pres. part. providing)
1.
Give something useful or necessary to.  Synonyms: furnish, render, supply.
2.
Give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance.  Synonyms: cater, ply, supply.
3.
Determine (what is to happen in certain contingencies), especially by including a proviso condition or stipulation.  "The Constitution provides for the right to free speech"
4.
Mount or put up.  Synonyms: offer, put up.  "Offer resistance"
5.
Make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain.  Synonyms: allow, allow for, leave.  "The evidence allows only one conclusion" , "Allow for mistakes" , "Leave lots of time for the trip" , "This procedure provides for lots of leeway"
6.
Supply means of subsistence; earn a living.  Synonym: bring home the bacon.  "Women nowadays not only take care of the household but also bring home the bacon"
7.
Take measures in preparation for.



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"Provide" Quotes from Famous Books



... precludes us from cultivating the society of our own species. Dolls will be dolls; and they have a natural sympathy with each other, notwithstanding the companionship of the race of man. Most little girls are aware of this fact, and provide suitable society for their dolls. I myself had a large circle of silent acquaintances, to whom I was introduced by Rose's kindness and consideration. When other little girls came to drink tea with her, ...
— The Doll and Her Friends - or Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina • Unknown

... seen what had happened to the English by the neglect of proper precautions, and when things were at their worst, the Nawab had to seek his alliance against the English, grant him leave to fortify Chandernagore, and, later on, even to provide him with money under the pretence that he was simply restoring the sum forcibly extorted from him the previous year.[24] Trade was at a standstill, and Renault was determined that if the enemies of his nation were destined to take the Company's property, they should have the utmost difficulty ...
— Three Frenchmen in Bengal - The Commercial Ruin of the French Settlements in 1757 • S.C. Hill

... no duties except the duties love makes," the doctor suggested. "He is no longer even the man you married. He is not a man in any sense of the word. He is merely a failure, a mistake; and if society is afraid to rid itself of him, society must provide for him." ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick

... disaster, Senator La Follette brought in a carefully drawn bill to compel steamship companies to provide life-boats and trained crews. The "Christian Science Monitor" opposed this bill; and when my correspondent cited the fact, he brought out a quaint bit of ...
— The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition • Upton Sinclair

... Twillingate Long Point to Cape Norman and the harbors of the Labrador. Caricatures, of course, engaged him—the parson, the schoolmaster, Bloody Bill Bull, and the crusty old shopkeeper. And had a man an enemy, Terry Lute, at the price of a clap on the back and an admiring wink, would provide him with a sketch which was like an arrow in his hand. The wink of admiration must be above suspicion, however, else Terry's cleverness ...
— Harbor Tales Down North - With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. • Norman Duncan


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