provision
noun
a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
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She might have been provisioning for a siege.
From An Isle in the Water by Katharine Tynan