- to make available; furnish: to provide employees with various benefits.
- to supply or equip: to provide the army with new fighter planes.
- to afford or yield.
- to arrange for or stipulate beforehand, as by a provision or proviso.
- to prepare or procure beforehand.
- to take measures with due foresight (usually followed by for or against).
- to make arrangements for supplying means of support, money, etc. (usually followed by for): He provided for his children in his will.
- to supply means of support (often followed by for): to provide for oneself.
- to put at the disposal of; furnish or supply
- to afford; yield
- to take careful precautions (over)
- to supply means of support (to), esp financially
- (in statutes, documents, etc) to determine (what is to happen in certain contingencies), esp by including a proviso condition
- to confer and induct into ecclesiastical offices
- to have or get in store
