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'provide' - used as a verb
1. provide or furnish with
We provided the room with an electrical heater
2. provide what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
The hostess provided lunch for all the guests
3. determine (what is to happen in certain contingencies), especially by including a proviso condition or stipulation
The will provides that each child should receive half of the money
The Constitution provides for the right to free speech
4. mount or put up
5. make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain
This procedure provides for lots of leeway
6. supply means of subsistence; earn a living
He provides for his large family by working three jobs
7. take measures in preparation for
provide for the proper care of the passengers on the cruise ship

derived forms
1. Provide / Past
provided
2. Provide / Third Person
provides
3. Provide / Present Participle
providing
Variations of 'provide'
 
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    We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave. - Click here to find out.
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    The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service.