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provision
[ pruh-vizh-uhn ]
noun
- a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
Synonyms: condition
- the providing or supplying of something, especially of food or other necessities.
- arrangement or preparation beforehand, as for the doing of something, the meeting of needs, the supplying of means, etc.
- something provided; a measure or other means for meeting a need.
- a supply or stock of something provided.
- provisions, supplies of food.
- Ecclesiastical.
- an appointment to an ecclesiastical office.
- appointment by the pope to a see or benefice not yet vacant.
verb (used with object)
- to supply with provisions.
provision
/ prəˈvɪʒən /
noun
- the act of supplying or providing food, etc
- something that is supplied or provided
- preparations made beforehand (esp in the phrase make provision for )
- plural food and other necessities, esp for an expedition
- plural food obtained for a household
- a demand, condition, or stipulation formally incorporated in a document; proviso
- the conferring of and induction into ecclesiastical offices
verb
- tr to supply with provisions
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Derived Forms
- proˈvisioner, noun
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Other Words From
- pro·vision·er noun
- pro·vision·less adjective
- over·pro·vision noun
- prepro·vision noun
- repro·vision verb
- self-pro·vision noun
- unpro·visioned adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of provision1
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Example Sentences
Assembly Bill 3216 also includes provisions to provide laid-off workers a path to return to their jobs, even if an employer or businesses changes ownership.
Solutions include boosting technology access for students, leveraging low-tech, community-based efforts, tutoring and special provisions for the youngest learners.
Given the diminished voting power of employee and investor shares, it is possible that these voting provisions will negatively impact the final price of those shares.
It would strengthen data protection provisions, provide for tougher penalties, and potentially create a new enforcement agency.
If there are provisions for alterations in your digital marketing strategy, you would be able to adapt to any situation.
Six of the biggest lenders all expect heavy credit defaults and soured loans, as shown by their loan loss provisions, which jumped 43% from the already hair-raising totals in the first quarter to a combined $36 billion in the second quarter.
This antiquated provision costs the city around $34 million annually.
Whereas it doesn’t take that much to not enforce a lot of its provisions.
A Charlie Hebdo reporter said that security provision had been relaxed in the last month or so and the police car disappeared.
Tax evasion carries a maximum penalty of five years, and thus it seems likely that Grimm would be covered by the provision.
In his opinion, Rio Tinto has not addressed this provision of the comprehensive sanctions against Iran.
There was a provision in the Union Conscription Act of 1863 that allowed wealthy men to pay $300 to buy their way out of service.
Domestic abuse awareness groups opposed the provision, saying it would discourage victims from reporting.
That provision accords first-time offenders something called Pre-Trial Intervention.
Both Royce and Engel called on the Obama administration to step up its provision of weapons to the Free Syrian Army.
The provision of confidential details to the IG does not mean that they will be publicly released.
“This will affect the provision of water and sanitation services,” she said.
The provision the administration is proposing to remove from the foreign appropriations bill is called the “Brownback Amendment.”
One gambit is to require photo identification, a reasonable-sounding provision that 34 states have now adopted.
The constitutional provision at issue in these cases is the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
There was also the little-known provision that allowed families to produce 200 gallons annually for personal use.
Each has worked aggressively for many months to win support from their colleagues, and they disagree on one key provision.
That is the provision regarding “unlawful possession of manufacture of Weapons of Mass Destruction.”
Some of the injured are still fighting, and some are broken, but all need long-term provision.
The Arizona senator described a provision inserted into the debt deal appropriating $2 billion for a Kentucky dam as "disgusting."
Is the compromise that will keep the government from shutting down a provision that makes healthcare more expensive for Congress?
Likewise, better mental-health provision would contribute to the reduction of gun massacres.
In March 2013, 73 percent of young Republicans surveyed had heard of the provision, compared with 63 percent of Democratic youths.
Full provision is made for Catholics and Nonconformists desiring to attend the services of their respective bodies.
Hence, at the end of the war, the provision for redemption of Bank of England notes will work automatically.
Whenever they did, reductions in the rates, or the provision of p. 209greater facilities, were to restore the balance.
This provision also had the effect of preventing the imposition of taxation upon the community by means of railway rates.
However, it also means provision, store, assistance; whence it is no great step to the sense of 'reward.'
He knew, if those watching him did not, the terrible pangs of starvation and here was provision for many a day.
A unique feature was the provision that the burgesses had the power of vetoing any objectionable acts of the company.
In the Everlasting Covenant, provision was made for Covenanting under the last or present dispensation.
These rates did not apply to foreign letters, for which different provision was made.
Tertullian expressly declares that the provision made for the poor included that for their burial—egenis humandis.
In the provision, here announced simply as an appointment of providence, all flesh is interested.
It was not intended for us, any more than any other provision of the law, intended for the protection of Americans.
What he really obtained in Italy was little more than a splendid provision for a cadet of his house.
This was probably a provision to carry off the fluids, which would be caused by the decomposition of the body.
The great question was instantly raised; What provision should be made for the defence of the realm?
And signally, indeed, had been announced by his appearance, that peace—his covenant provision.
He expressed a hope that, when they should meet again, they would make effectual provision for the public safety.
(ii) The provision to the maximum extent possible of non-restricted or "U" programmes for children's sessions.
The Sovereign is now empowered by Act of Parliament to make such a provision out of the public revenue.
In old times such a provision was ordinarily made out of the hereditary domain of the Crown.
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