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provide [ pro·vide ]
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1. Make available for use; supply.
There is no stipend, but college credit is available and lunch is provided.
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2. (provide someone with) Equip or supply someone with (something useful or necessary)
The soft drinks were to have provided him with a safe drinking supply.
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3. Present or yield (something useful)
The chapter on pearl millet provides a useful introduction to this crop.
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4. (provide for) Make adequate preparation for (a possible event)
He says public transport has also been provided for under the plan.
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5. Supply sufficient money to ensure the maintenance of (someone)
Emma was handsomely provided for in Frannie's will
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6. (of a law) enable or allow (something to be done)
the Bill provides for the setting of guaranteed service standards
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7. Stipulate in a will or other legal document.
The mortgage provides that the mortgagor shall pay all municipal taxes as they fall due.
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8. (provide someone to) Appoint an incumbent to (a benefice).
Laing was Rector of Tannadice in Angus, Vicar of Linlithgow, and Rector of Newlands in the diocese of Glasgow when he was provided to the See of Glasgow.
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Origin
1. Late Middle English (also in the sense ‘prepare to do, get ready’): from Latin providere ‘foresee, attend to’, from pro- ‘before’ + videre ‘to see’.
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