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

1. transitive verb. To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.
2. transitive verb. To supply; to afford; to contribute.
3. transitive verb. To furnish; to supply; -- formerly followed by of, now by with.
4. transitive verb. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate; as, the contract provides that the work be well done.
5. transitive verb. To foresee.
6. transitive verb. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See Provisor.
7. intransitive 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.
8. intransitive verb. To stipulate previously; to condition; as, the agreement provides for an early completion of the work.
9. verb. take measures in preparation for

   "provide for the proper care of the passengers on the cruise ship"

10. 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"

11. verb. give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance

    "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests"

    Synonyms: cater, ply, supply

12. 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"

13. verb. give something useful or necessary to

    "We provided the room with an electrical heater"

    Synonyms: furnish, render, supply

14. verb. mount or put up

    "put up a good fight"

    "offer resistance"

    Synonyms: offer

15. 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"

    Synonyms: allow, leave

Synonyms

cater, ply, supply, furnish, render, offer, allow, leave

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in provide:

prevoid

Common word forms

provided, provider, provides, providing

Words from these letters

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