provision
noun
a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
unprovisioned
-
a word derived from
provision.
Example Sentences
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In essence, the researchers argue, the commercial feeding industry in the U.K. seems to have helped aggressive generalists take over entire bird communities and spill out from gardens into unprovisioned wildernesses.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 4, 2022
In outlying villages, the general's men found restaurants unprovisioned, inns full.
From Time Magazine Archive
We are friends in the way people in an unprovisioned lifeboat are, chance consorts who are sure that they’ll be picked up soon, any day now, but not exactly how or when.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
The earl indeed repented the rashness with which he had thrown himself unprovisioned into the citadel.
From The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter
And the focus of these three armies and of Butler's, Johnson's, and McDonald's renegades and Indians was this unhappy county of Tryon, torn already with internal dissensions; unarmed, unprovisioned, unorganized, almost ungarrisoned.
From The Maid-At-Arms by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
