provideverb
uk/prəˈvaɪd/us/prəˈvaɪd/provide verb (SUPPLY)
B1 [ T ] to give someone something that they need:
This booklet provides useful information about local services.
All meals are provided at no additional cost.
The author provides no documentary references to support her assertions.
We have concerns about whether the government will be able to provide viable social services for poorer families/provide poorer families with viable social services.
Putting more police on patrol doesn't provide a real solution to the problem of increasing violence.
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- Bonus payments provide an incentive to work harder.
- Do you think the state should provide free nursery education?
- A healthy diet should provide all your essential nutrients.
- They opened a shelter to provide temporary housing for the city's homeless.
- He was able to provide the police with some valuable information.
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Giving, providing and supplying
- accommodate
- accord
- administer
- administration
- assignment
- award
- deliver
- go round (somewhere)
- hand sth around
- hand sth back
- hand sth in
- hand sth out
- invest
- lay
- spare
- step
- step forward
- supplier
- supply
- supply chain
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provide verb (LAW)
[ + that ] formal (of a law or decision) to say that something must happen if particular conditions exist:
Section 17 provides that all decisions must be circulated in writing.
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Court cases, orders & decisions
- actionable
- administer
- admissible
- affidavit
- affiliation order
- bail
- bale
- defend
- inadmissible
- injunction
- judgment
- judicature
- judicial
- plea
- remedy
- Rex
- ruling
- separation
- sequester
- show trial
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Phrasal verb(s)
provide against sth
provide for sb
provide for sth