Definition of provision

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Provision (n.) That which is provided or prepared; that which is brought together or arranged in advance; measures taken beforehand; preparation.

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Provisionary :: Provisionary (a.) Provisional.
Prepare :: Prepare (v. t.) To procure as suitable or necessary; to get ready; to provide; as, to prepare ammunition and provisions for troops; to prepare ships for defence; to prepare an entertainment..
Keeping :: Keeping (n.) Maintenance; support; provision; feed; as, the cattle have good keeping..
Bouge :: Bouge (n.) Bouche (see Bouche, 2); food and drink; provisions..
Provisor :: Provisor (n.) One who procures or receives a papal provision. See Provision, 6..
Transport :: Transport (v.) A vessel employed for transporting, especially for carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one place to another, or to convey convicts to their destination; -- called also transport ship, transport vessel..
Scant :: Scant (superl.) Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment..
Market :: Market (v. i.) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
Buttery :: Buttery (n.) An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept..
Finding :: Finding (n.) Support; maintenance; that which is provided for one; expence; provision.
Scandium :: Scandium (n.) A rare metallic element of the boron group, whose existence was predicted under the provisional name ekaboron by means of the periodic law, and subsequently discovered by spectrum analysis in certain rare Scandinavian minerals (euxenite and gadolinite). It has not yet been isolated. Symbol Sc. Atomic weight 44..
Provisionally :: Provisionally (adv.) By way of provision for the time being; temporarily.
Battel :: Battel (v. i.) To be supplied with provisions from the buttery.
Inexhaustible :: Inexhaustible (a.) Incapable of being exhausted, emptied, or used up; unfailing; not to be wasted or spent; as, inexhaustible stores of provisions; an inexhaustible stock of elegant words..
Impressment :: Impressment (n.) The act of seizing for public use, or of impressing into public service; compulsion to serve; as, the impressment of provisions or of sailors..
Park :: Park (n.) A space occupied by the animals, wagons, pontoons, and materials of all kinds, as ammunition, ordnance stores, hospital stores, provisions, etc., when brought together; also, the objects themselves; as, a park of wagons; a park of artillery..
Provisioning :: Provisioning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Provisio.
Protista :: Protista (n. pl.) A provisional group in which are placed a number of low microscopic organisms of doubtful nature. Some are probably plants, others animals..
Subsistence :: Subsistence (n.) That which furnishes support to animal life; means of support; provisions, or that which produces provisions; livelihood; as, a meager subsistence..
Fund :: Fund (n.) A store laid up, from which one may draw at pleasure; a supply; a full provision of resources; as, a fund of wisdom or good sense..
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