Provision

/pɹəˈvɪʒ.ən/ · noun

Meaning

An item of goods or supplies, especially food, obtained for future use..

Definitions by Sense

1. An item of goods or supplies, especially food, obtained for future use.
2. The act of providing, or making previous preparation.
3. Money set aside for a future event.
4. (accounting) A liability or contra account to recognise likely future adverse events associated with current transactions.
5. (law) A clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
6. (Roman Catholicism) Regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation.
7. (British, historical) A nomination by the pope to a benefice before it became vacant, depriving the patron of his right of presentation.
8. (transitive) To supply with provisions.

Example Sentences

[H]e hath preſerued all points of Humanity, in taking Order, and making Proviſion for the Releefe of Strangers diſtreſſed; whereof you have taſted.

[Noah] Began to build a Veſſel of huge bulk, / Meaſur'd by Cubit, length, and breadth, and highth, / Smeared round with Pitch, and in the ſide a dore, / Contriv'd, and of proviſions laid in large / For Man and Beaſt: [...]

We have an infirm ſhip's company, and but five months proviſion, which muſt ſerve us to China unleſs we get a ſupply at Guam.

Fiue dayes we do allot thee for prouision, To shield thee from disasters of the world,

And as congressional Republicans were passing a very unpopular Trump agenda bill last month, Vice President JD Vance argued that its historic expansion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and new immigration enforcement provisions were so important that “everything else” was “immaterial.”

We increased our provision for bad debts on credit sales going into the recession.

An arrest shall be made in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

Almost half of MEPs wanted to remove the new provisions' to expand the use of megatrucks but an amendment to do that failed to pass by just six votes.

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• provisions
• provisioning
• provisioned

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