PROVIDE
Definition:
- [verb] provide or furnish with; "We provided the room with an electrical heater"
Synonyms: supply, render, furnish
- [verb] provide what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests"
Synonyms: supply, ply, cater
- [verb] 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"
- [verb] mount or put up; "put up a good fight"; "offer resistance"
Synonyms: put up, offer
- [verb] 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"
Synonyms: leave, allow for, allow
- [verb] 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"
Synonyms: bring home the bacon
- [verb] take measures in preparation for; "provide for the proper care of the passengers on the cruise ship"
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Related Words:
- hydrate
- charge
- date
- feed
- calk
- fund
- stint, skimp, scant
- terrace, terrasse
- dado
- innervate
- offer
- signalize, signalise
- extend, offer
- stock
- stock, buy in
- caption
- tube
- ticket
- stock
- stock
- rim
- fret
- step
- rail
- grate
- capitalize, capitalise
- alphabetize
- wharf
- air-condition
- uniform
- railroad
- partner
- bewhisker, whisker
- subtitle
- headline
- match
- hobnail
- wive
- victual
- surfeit, cloy
- heat
- seat
- seat
- ramp
- arm
- interleave
- glass, glaze
- crenel, crenelate, crenellate
- causeway
- canal, canalize, canalise
- bush
- brattice
- furnish
- slat
- berth
- bed
- computerize, computerise
- costume
- bottom
- rafter
- tool
- key
- fuel
- provision, purvey
- yield, give, afford
- equip, fit, fit out, outfit
- transistorize, transistorise
- upholster
- cleat
- coal
- corbel
- cornice
- constitutionalize
- copper-bottom
- curtain
- gate
- index
- joint, articulate
- pour
- pump
- fuel, fire
- flood, oversupply, glut
- toggle
- patch
- water
- leverage
- tap
- top
- reflectorize, reflectorise
- retrofit
- border, edge
- machicolate
- sanitate
- hat
- theme
- shelter
- staff
- drench
- regale, treat
- board
- feed, give
- feed
- serve, serve up, dish out, dish up, dish
- cater
- pander, pimp, procure
- serve, help
- power
- feed
- gratify, pander, indulge
- underlay
- meet, satisfy, fill, fulfill, fulfil
- horse
- shower
- accommodate
- nourish, nurture, sustain
- fix up
- gutter
