provided
[pruh-vahy-did]
- on the condition or understanding (that); providing: I'll go provided that the others go, too.
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Origin of provided
Synonyms
See more synonyms for provided on Thesaurus.comin case, granted. See if.
Antonyms
lest.
Usage note
The conjunctions provided and providing are interchangeable. Both mean “on the condition or understanding that,” with that sometimes expressed: Provided (or Providing ) no further objections are raised, we will consider the matter settled.
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Historical Examples
This was all he had with which to meet and overcome Grylls's strong and well-provided party.
Two on the TrailHulbert Footner
It is thickly populated and well-provided with rice and gold-mines.
Is not this lavish generosity to a pair of royal and well-provided lovers an insult to the working people of England?
Flowers of FreethoughtGeorge W. Foote
Danby was caught by her good looks, and she by the bait of a well-provided home.
He was an innocent beggar going to the doors of the well-provided for cold spiritual victuals to warm over for his own family.
The heart of happy hollowPaul Laurence Dunbar
well-provided
- having been furnished or supplied with a sufficient amount
- (foll by for) having been supplied with sufficient means of support, esp financially
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Word Origin and History for well-provided
provided
"with condition that," early 15c., conjunction use of past participle of provide. As an adjective, "prepared, ready," 1570s; "furnished" 1878.
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