English Dictionary

provide

/pɹəˈvaɪd/

verb

To make a living; earn money for necessities. / To act to prepare for something. / To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate. / To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.

She works hard to provide for her family.

意味（1）

To make a living; earn money for necessities.

It is difficult to provide for my family working on minimum wage.

意味（2）

To act to prepare for something.

provide against disaster.

意味（3）

To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.

The contract provides that the work be well done.

意味（4）

To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.

Don't bother bringing equipment, as we will provide it.

意味（5）

To furnish (with), cause to be present.

Rome […] was generally well provided with corn.

意味（6）

To make possible or attainable.

He provides us with an alternative option.

意味（7）

(obsolete, Latinism) To foresee, to consider in advance.

, Act 5, Scene 10, in Gifford’s 1816 edition volume III page 144

, Act 5, Scene 10, in Gifford’s 1816 edition volume III page 144 We have not been covetous, honourable fathers, to change, neither is it now any new lust that alters our affection, or old lothing, but those needful jealousies of state, that warn wiser princes hourly to provide their safety, and do teach them how learned a thing it is to beware of the humblest enemy; much more of those great ones, whom their own employed favours have made fit for their fears.

意味（8）

To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.

provide such natives to the higher dignities of the church