Dictionary Entry
provide
provide is a 7-letter English word with 15 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 15 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.
- 2transitive verb
To supply; to afford; to contribute.
- 3transitive verb
To furnish; to supply; -- formerly followed by of, now by with.
- 4transitive verb
To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate; as, the contract provides that the work be well done.
- 5transitive verb
To foresee.
- 6transitive verb
To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See Provisor.
- 7intransitive verb
To procure supplies or means in advance; to take measures beforehand in view of an expected or a possible future need, especially a danger or an evil; -- followed by against or for; as, to provide against the inclemency of the weather; to provide for the education of a child.
- 8intransitive verb
To stipulate previously; to condition; as, the agreement provides for an early completion of the work.
- 9verb
take measures in preparation for
"provide for the proper care of the passengers on the cruise ship"
- 10verb
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"
- 11verb
give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
"The hostess provided lunch for all the guests"
- 12verb
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"
- 13verb
give something useful or necessary to
"We provided the room with an electrical heater"
- 14verb
mount or put up
"put up a good fight"
"offer resistance"
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- 15verb
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"
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