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ALL meanings of provide

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  • verb with object provide to make available; furnish: to provide employees with various benefits. 1
  • verb with object provide to supply or equip: to provide the army with new fighter planes. 1
  • verb with object provide to afford or yield. 1
  • verb with object provide Law. to arrange for or stipulate beforehand, as by a provision or proviso. 1
  • verb with object provide Archaic. to prepare or procure beforehand. 1
  • verb without object provide to take measures with due foresight (usually followed by for or against). 1
  • verb without object provide to make arrangements for supplying means of support, money, etc. (usually followed by for): He provided for his children in his will. 1
  • verb without object provide to supply means of support (often followed by for): to provide for oneself. 1
  • verb provide If you provide something that someone needs or wants, or if you provide them with it, you give it to them or make it available to them. 0
  • verb provide If a law or agreement provides that something will happen, it states that it will happen. 0
  • verb provide to put at the disposal of; furnish or supply 0
  • verb provide to afford; yield 0
  • verb provide to take careful precautions (over) 0
  • verb provide to supply means of support (to), esp financially 0
  • verb provide (in statutes, documents, etc) to determine (what is to happen in certain contingencies), esp by including a proviso condition 0
  • verb provide to confer and induct into ecclesiastical offices 0
  • verb provide to have or get in store 0
  • verb transitive provide to get ready beforehand 0
  • verb transitive provide to make available; supply 0
  • verb transitive provide to supply (someone) with something 0
  • verb transitive provide to state as a condition; stipulate 0
  • intransitive verb provide to prepare (for or against some probable or possible situation, occurrence, etc.) 0
  • intransitive verb provide to make a condition; stipulate 0
  • intransitive verb provide to furnish the means of support 0
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