Provide - meaning and definition. What is Provide
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What (who) is Provide - definition


provide         
I. v. a.
1.
Prepare, procure, get ready, make ready, arrange, collect for use.
2.
Supply, furnish, contribute, yield, produce, afford.
3.
[Followed by with.] Furnish, supply.
II. v. n.
1.
Cater, furnish supplies.
2.
Take measures, make provision, prepare, arrange.
3.
Stipulate, bargain, contract, engage, agree, covenant.
provide         
v.
1) (d; intr.) to provide for (to provide for one's family; to provide for every contingency)
2) (D; tr.) to provide for (to provide blankets for the refugees)
3) (d; tr.) to provide with (they were provided with the proper equipment; we provided the refugees with blankets)
4) (L; subj.) this bill provides that money be/should be allocated for flood control
provide         
(provides, providing, provided)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
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.
I'll be glad to provide a copy of this...
They would not provide any details...
The government was not in a position to provide them with food.
= supply
VERB: V n, V n, V n with n
provider (providers)
They remain the main providers of sports facilities.
N-COUNT
2.
If a law or agreement provides that something will happen, it states that it will happen. (FORMAL)
The treaty provides that, by the end of the century, the United States must have removed its bases...
VERB: V that
3.
Examples of use of Provide
1. It may not provide proof, but it does provide clues.
2. They must be there to provide the amenities, to provide PROPER Policing, to provide proper local services.
3. Banks will provide money to those who wants to provide margin calls," he said.
4. Failure to provide armoured Land Rovers, failure to provide protective armour for Hercules aircraft fuel tanks, failure to provide adequate radio equipment.
5. "Who provides it, what they provide, when they provide it, how much they provide it for has not been decided," he said.