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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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... girl in his office who was not new to the practices she encouraged, and he was fairly launched. He lent himself at first to the great folly of pretending to love truly; but this was taken by one and another intelligent young woman with a grain of salt. The entertainment and preferment he could provide were accepted as sufficient reward. One girl, however, actually seduced, had to be compensated by five thousand dollars—and that after such terrors and heartaches (his wife, her family, and his own looming up horribly in the background) ...

— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser

... providence for the future, no tastes for comfort or elegancies, which are the characteristics and essentials of civilization. He who has obtained the command of another's labor, first begins to accumulate and provide for the future, and the foundations of civilization are laid. We find confirmed by experience that which is so evident in theory. Since the existence of man upon the earth, with no exception whatever, either of ancient or modern times, every society ...

— Cotton is King and The Pro-Slavery Arguments • Various

... was not sorry to find an opportunity of separating Paul and Virginia for a short time, and provide by this means, for their mutual felicity at a future period. She took her daughter aside, and said to her,—"My dear child, our servants are now old. Paul is still very young, Margaret is advanced in years, and I am already infirm. If I should die what would ...

— Paul and Virginia • Bernardin de Saint Pierre

... Captain Hull did not wish to leave his ship without leaving on board at least one man from the crew, in whom he had confidence. It was necessary to provide for ...

— Dick Sand - A Captain at Fifteen • Jules Verne

... this set the birds moving uneasily in the box overhead. But before their alarm grew serious I had slipped down to earth again, and now it took Jose and me but a couple of minutes to fling the blankets over the line and provide the Captain with a curtain, behind which, when day broke, he could watch the troopers and his opportunity. Already, in the village behind us, a cock was crowing. In twenty minutes the sun would be up and the bugles sounding the ...

— The Laird's Luck • Arthur Quiller-Couch

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