Provide
To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.
To supply; to afford; to contribute.
To furnish; to supply; -- formerly followed by of, now by with.
To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate; as, the contract provides that the work be well done.
To foresee.
To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See Provisor.
To procure supplies or means in advance; to take measures beforehand in view of an expected or a possible future need, especially a danger or an evil; -- followed by against or for; as, to provide against the inclemency of the weather; to provide for the education of a child.
To stipulate previously; to condition; as, the agreement provides for an early completion of the work.
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Provide Quotations
With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
Barack Obama
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
Oprah Winfrey
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
Robert A. Heinlein
Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Jim Rohn
One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.
Will Rogers
Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
Milton Friedman
A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
James Madison
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
James Madison
I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.
Leo Buscaglia
Provide Translations
provide in Dutch is provianderen, spekken, bevoorraden
provide in French is obvier, approvisionnez, approvisionnons, pourvois
provide in Italian is provvedere, ovviare
provide in Latin is provideo, exorno, suggero, ministro, praebeo
provide in Spanish is facilitar, proveer, evitar, suministrar
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