provide
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɹəˈvaɪd/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aɪd
Verb
provide (third-person singular simple present provides, present participle providing, simple past and past participle provided)
- To make a living; earn money for necessities.
- It is difficult to provide for my family working on minimum wage.
- To act to prepare for something.
- To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
- The contract provides that the work be well done.
- I'll lend you the money, provided that you pay it back by Monday.
- To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
- Don't bother bringing equipment, as we will provide it.
- We aim to provide the local community with more green spaces.
- 2006, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 320:
- Humans provided the animals with food and protection in exchange for which the animals provided the humans their milk, eggs, and—yes—their flesh.
- To furnish (with), cause to be present.
- (Can we date this quote?) Arbuthnot
- Rome […] was well provided with corn.
- (Can we date this quote?) Arbuthnot
- To make possible or attainable.
- He provides us with an alternative option.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- Bring me berries, or such cooling fruit / As the kind, hospitable woods provide.
- (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)
- To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Prescott to this entry?)
Usage notes
As seen in the examples, when not used with that for previous conditions, provide is used with the prepositions for (beneficiary; also without preposition, usual for pronouns) and with (object).
Derived terms
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Translations
to give what is needed or desired
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to establish as a previous condition
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to furnish (with)
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Italian
Latin
References
- provide in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- provide in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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