Dictionary Definition
provide
Verb
1 provide or furnish with; "We provided the room
with an electrical heater" [syn: supply, render, furnish]
2 provide what is desired or needed, especially
support, food or sustenance; "The hostess provided lunch for all
the guests" [syn: supply,
ply, cater]
3 determine (what is to happen in certain
contingencies), especially by including a proviso condition or
stipulation; "The will provides that each child should receive half
of the money"; "The Constitution provides for the right to free
speech"
5 make a possibility or provide opportunity for;
permit to be attainable or cause to remain; "This leaves no room
for improvement"; "The evidence allows only one conclusion"; "allow
for mistakes"; "leave lots of time for the trip"; "This procedure
provides for lots of leeway" [syn: leave, allow for,
allow]
6 supply means of subsistence; earn a living; "He
provides for his large family by working three jobs"; "Women
nowadays not only take care of the household but also bring home
the bacon" [syn: bring
home the bacon]
7 take measures in preparation for; "provide for
the proper care of the passengers on the cruise ship"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /pɹəˈvaɪd/
Verb
- To make a living; earn money for necessities.
- To act to prepare for something.
- To determine the form of some situations, by means of a stipulation or condition.
- To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
- To furnish with, cause to be present.
- To make possible or attainable.
Derived terms
Translations
to give what is needed or desired
- Czech: poskytnout
to furnish with
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 供给 (gōnggěi)
- Dutch: voorzien
- Finnish: varustaa
- French: pourvoir
- German: versehen
- Hungarian: nyújtani, biztosítani
- Italian: provvedere
- Japanese: 供給する (きょうきゅうする, kyōkyū suru)
- Korean: 공급하다 (gonggeuphada)
- Portuguese: prover
- Russian: обеспечивать (obespéčivat’)
- Spanish: proveer
- Swedish: förse
Italian
Verb
provide- Form of Third-person singular past historic, provedere
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accommodate, accommodate
with, accord, afford, anticipate, arrange, arrange for, attend to,
care for, cater, clear for
action, clear the decks, clothe, contribute, cure, deliver, demand, deploy, dispense, donate, dress, endow, equip, favor with, feed, fill, fill up, find, fix, fix up, forearm, fund, furnish, get ready, give, hand, hand over, heap upon, indulge
with, invest, keep, lavish upon, lay down,
lend, look after, maintain, make arrangements,
make available, make preparations, make provision for, make ready,
marshal, minister to,
mobilize, offer, outfit, plan, pour on, prearrange, prep, prepare, prepare for, present, pretreat, process, produce, provender, provide for,
purvey, put in shape,
ready, ready up, recruit, replenish, require, settle preliminaries,
shower down upon, specify, state, stipulate, stock, stock up, store, subsidize, supply, support, take care of, take
measures, take precautions, tan, transfer, treat, trim, try out, turn over, victual, yield