provision
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /pɹəˈvɪʒ.ən/
provision
- An item of goods or supplies, especially food, obtained for future use.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis
- making provision for the relief of strangers
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 10”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- And of provisions laid in large, / For man and beast.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis
- The act of providing, or making previous preparation.
- Money set aside for a future event.
- (accounting) A liability or contra account to recognise likely future adverse events associated with current transactions.
- We increased our provision for bad debts on credit sales going into the recession.
(legal) A clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso. - Synonyms: condition, stipulation
- An arrest shall be made in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
- (Roman Catholic) Regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation.
- (UK, historical) A nomination by the pope to a benefice before it became vacant, depriving the patron of his right of presentation.
- French: provision
- German: Vorrat, (food) Proviant
- Portuguese: provisão
- Russian: снабже́ние
- Spanish: provisión
provision (provisions, present participle provisioning; past and past participle provisioned)
- (transitive) To supply with provisions.
- to provision an army
- (transitive, computing) To supply (a user) with an account, resources, etc. so that they can use a system.
- deprovision
- direct provision
- ground provisions
- provisional
- provisionings
- provide
- French: (only in the financial meaning) provisionner
- Portuguese: prover, aprovisionar, provisionar
- Spanish: aprovisionar, avituallar
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