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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Stowage :: Stowage (n.) The act or method of stowing; as, the stowage of provisions in a vessel..
Battel :: Battel (v. i.) To be supplied with provisions from the buttery.
Market :: Market (v. i.) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
Cellar :: Cellar (n.) A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept..
Bouge :: Bouge (n.) Bouche (see Bouche, 2); food and drink; provisions..
Quartermaster :: Quartermaster (n.) An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies..
Provision :: Provision (v. t.) To supply with food; to victual; as, to provision a garrison..
Store :: Store (v. t.) Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family..
Poorly :: Poorly (adv.) In a poor manner or condition; without plenty, or sufficiency, or suitable provision for comfort; as, to live poorly..
Battler :: Battler (n.) A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge..
Some :: Some (a.) A part; a portion; -- used pronominally, and followed sometimes by of; as, some of our provisions..
Hypothesis :: Hypothesis (n.) A tentative theory or supposition provisionally adopted to explain certain facts, and to guide in the investigation of others; hence, frequently called a working hypothesis..
Muscardine :: Muscardine (n.) A disease which is very destructive to silkworms, and which sometimes extends to other insects. It is attended by the development of a fungus (provisionally called Botrytis bassiana). Also, the fungus itself..
Gaol :: Gaol (n.) A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail..
Huckster :: Huckster (n.) A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker..
Unprovide :: Unprovide (v. t.) To deprive of necessary provision; to unfurnish.
Provision :: Provision (n.) That which is provided or prepared; that which is brought together or arranged in advance; measures taken beforehand; preparation.
Prudence :: Prudence (n.) The quality or state of being prudent; wisdom in the way of caution and provision; discretion; carefulness; hence, also, economy; frugality..
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..
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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