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Provide

verb

(past & past part. provided; pres. part. providing)

Give something useful or necessary to. Synonyms: furnish, render, supply.

Give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance. Synonyms: cater, ply, supply.

Determine (what is to happen in certain contingencies), especially by including a proviso condition or stipulation. "The Constitution provides for the right to free speech"

Mount or put up. Synonyms: offer, put up. "Offer resistance"

Make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain. Synonyms: allow, allow for, leave. "The evidence allows only one conclusion" , "Allow for mistakes" , "Leave lots of time for the trip" , "This procedure provides for lots of leeway"

Supply means of subsistence; earn a living. Synonym: bring home the bacon. "Women nowadays not only take care of the household but also bring home the bacon"

Take measures in preparation for.

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— The Youngest Girl in the Fifth - A School Story • Angela Brazil

... prevent the cloud, or provide a shelter ere the storm breaks, it may be called true philosophy. But, forgive me, dear, for thus throwing a shadow where no shadow ought to rest. I will believe your choice a wise one, and that a happy future ...

— Finger Posts on the Way of Life • T. S. Arthur

... under Sir Edmund Andros, departed for England, and the members of his council to Albany, and denounced Leisler as an arch-rebel. Leisler sent an account of his proceedings to King William, and called an assembly to provide means for carrying on war against the French in Canada. King William paid no attention to Leisler's message, and commissioned Colonel Henry Sloughter governor of New York, and sent a company of regular soldiers, under Captain Ingoldsby, ...

— The Land We Live In - The Story of Our Country • Henry Mann

... are present in the ore, an excess of oxide of lead helps to keep the sulphur out of the button of metal. In addition to the oxide of lead required as a flux, some will be required to provide the lead in which the silver is to be collected. Oxide of lead, mixed with charcoal or flour, yields, when heated, a multitude of minute buttons of metal uniformly distributed through the mass of the charge; as ...

— A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. • Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer

... I made it my business to provide her with a sprig of myrtle for her sash at dinner-time; this, when she had worn it all the evening, I received again on bidding her good night, and stored in a treasure drawer, which, becoming in time ...

— Records of a Girlhood • Frances Anne Kemble

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