provide

Meaning

1. To make a living; earn money for necessities.
2. To act to prepare for something.
3. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
4. To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
5. To furnish (with), cause to be present.
6. To make possible or attainable.
7. (obsolete) To foresee, to consider in advance.
8. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.

Concepts

provide

supply

furnish

give

render

equip

cater

deliver

allow

offer

prepare

yield

administer

afford

grant

accommodate

arrange

purvey

accord

confer

impart

leave

get

attend to

install

provision

donate

cause

procure

contribute

fix

put up

outfit

fit out

take care of

sustain

prescribe

pass

quit

spare

serve

hold

organize

stage

see to

help

support

bestow

extend

submit

make ready

ply

bring home the bacon

allow for

endue

ensure

accouter

rig

stock

provide for

dispose

look after

watch for

hand over

instal

present

adjust

ordain

stipulate

stipulations

alight

emerge

exit

go out

spend

switch on

turn on

abandon

denounce

desert

forsake

leak

renounce

snitch

act as agent

act as go-between

cause to take place

give rise to

inflict

pose

provoke

result in

wreak

make out

maintain

patronize

endow

fit

make

give help

make preparatifs

find

guarantee

fit with

accumulate

clothe with

gear

store

victual

fuel

look ahead

file

put forward

refer to

suggest

accouterment

allocate

deploy

be depleted

lose

make sufficient

set up with

teach

bring about

arrange for

put out

admit

allot

apply

assign

award

deal

dispense

drive home

empower

fasten

gift

indue

lend

let

pass on

pay

aliment

entertain

nurture

subsist

array

book

caucus

collate

coordinate

distribute

dress

fix up

line up

marshal

mount

orchestrate

order

organise

program

sequence

stagger

straighten

tee up

unclutter

unravel

decree

enact

establish

regulate

trim

tune

brace oneself for

count

poise

foster

nourish

fetch

send

ship

take

put

equipe

earn

endeavour

obtain

try

issue

do

show

formulate

set

prescription

provisions

regulation

about to

intend

preparation

regulations

prevent

feed

pitch in

subjoin

toss in

facilitate

vouchsafe

arm

dight

habilitate

tool

dole out

reward

Hyphenated as

pro‧vide

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɹəˈvaɪd/

Etymology

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

Sentences

These systems may provide an option to hide the escape sequences .

The referendum did not provide how the reduction of members was to occur .