Meaning of provide in English

provide

verb

/prəˈvaɪd/ us

/prəˈvaɪd/

provide verb (SUPPLY)

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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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to give something to someone

giveGive me that dirty plate.
offerYour doctor should be able to offer advice.
provideThis booklet provides useful information about local services.
supplyThe lake supplies the whole town with water.
donateFour hundred dollars has been donated to the school book fund.

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to accommodate someone

accommodateThere aren’t enough rooms to accommodate all the students.
give accommodation toThe university gives free accommodation to nursing students.
provide accommodation toWe only provide accommodation to first-year students.
lodgeStudents will be lodged with host families.
houseThe base can house up to 2,000 soldiers.
put someone upI can put you up for a couple of nights.

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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

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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

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Phrasal verbs

provide against something
provide for someone
provide for something

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provide | American Dictionary

provide

verb

/prəˈvɑɪd/

provide verb (GIVE)

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to give something that is needed or wanted to someone:

The company provides medical benefits to all employees.

I can provide you with directions to their house.

provide verb (STATE)

(of a law or contract) to state that something must happen or be done:

[ I ] The new statute provides for life imprisonment without parole.

[ + that clause ] Many loan agreements provide that the interest rate will change.

Phrasal verb

provide for someone

(Definition of provide from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

provide | Business English

provide

verb [ T ]

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to give something to a person, company, or organization, or to make it available for them to use:

The government has pledged to provide over $1 billion in refinancing.

provide sb with sth Customers, suppliers, and contractors will be provided with the specialist training they need to work on the project.

provide sth for sb/sth The enhanced cashflow will also provide funds for expansion into television.

provide sth to sb Our digital imaging centre provides a 3D scanning service to a wide range of customers in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

be provided by sb/sth According to Census data provided by the state Department of Labor and Industry, Hispanic workers constitute about 3% of the work force.

to produce something useful that can be used as part of a process or activity:

A well-established management process should provide a framework for the integration of all business units and operations.

It is hoped that the proposed 10-day sales-tax holiday will provide a boost to retail sales.

provide an opportunity/advantage/basis

provided that

if, or only if:

ILO conventions allow schoolchildren to work during their holidays and free time provided that strict safety measures are taken.

provide that

LAW

a law or rule that provides that something must happen states officially that it must happen:

Rule 222-2 provides that all notices of shareholder meetings shall be sent to shareholders not less than seven days before the date of the meeting.

Phrasal verbs

provide against sth
provide for sth
provide for sb

(Definition of provide from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of provide

provide

A physician was permitted to overrule these recommendations by providing the reason at the bottom of the sheet.

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Templates provide stricter control over the surface form of the resulting clauses than do clause plans.

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Using this medium, we originally planned to provide a sound treatment of side-effects that would be more effective than systematic residualization.

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In this sense, then, control relies on planning to provide an adequate efference copy.

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Farmers often prefer farm plans that provide a satisfactory level of security even if this means sacrificing average income.

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This would provide a qualitative description of the mixing of single-particle and collective effects.

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Bayesian analysis provides a rational basis for the qualitative form of set-theoretic models of similarity.

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The results, presenting both qualitative and quantitative analyses, provide interesting insights into the responses of the students to the experiment itself.

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The use of regression models, such as multilevel modeling, potentially provides a rigorous means of modeling variation in cost-effectiveness between centers or countries (13).

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The aim is to provide insight into the more rigorous formalization that will be provided in the following sections.

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Finally, we shall approximate this system of recurrence equations by a system of ordinary differential equations whose solution provides us with the bounds mentioned above.

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Moreover, we provide complexity bounds for the problem in question and sketch a possible implementation method making use of dedicated systems for checking ordinary equivalence.

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Mere preferences independent of evaluation are excluded, although they provide goals in the ordinary sense.

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He thus sought to rehabilitate the doctrine of five principles for his project of philosophical chemistry by providing them with a corpuscular ontology.

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This method provides students with detailed examples and descriptions of phonetic and phonemic analyses.

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in Chinese (Traditional)

供給, 提供，供給, 法律…

Meaning of provide in English

provide verb (SUPPLY)

provide verb (LAW)

Phrasal verbs

provide | American Dictionary

provide verb (GIVE)

provide verb (STATE)

Phrasal verb

provide | Business English

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