Provide /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Provided; p. pr. & vb. n. Providing

1. To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.
2. To supply; to afford; to contribute.

   Bring me berries, or such cooling fruit As the kind, hospitable woods provide.

3. To furnish; to supply; -- formerly followed by of, now by with.
4. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate; as, the contract provides that the work be well done.
5. To foresee. [Obs.]
6. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See Provisor.

1. 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.

   Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

2. To stipulate previously; to condition; as, the agreement provides for an early completion of the work.