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
To do this before an unprovisioned army would be forced by starvation to surrender was the problem.
From Uncle Daniel's Story Of "Tom" Anderson And Twenty Great Battles by John McElroy
On his arrival at Fort Enterprise on October 14, Franklin for the first time lost heart, the station being unprovisioned and desolate.
From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Adolphus W. Greely
