provide
pronunciation
How to pronounce provide in British English:
UK [prəˈvaɪd]
How to pronounce provide in American English:
US [prəˈvaɪd]
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- Verb:
- provide or furnish with
- provide what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
- determine (what is to happen in certain contingencies), especially by including a proviso condition or stipulation
- mount or put up
- make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain
- supply means of subsistence; earn a living
- take measures in preparation for
Word Origin
- provide
- provide: [15] The -vide of provide goes back to Latin vidēre ‘see’ (source of English vision), which is a long way from the English verb’s main present-day meaning, ‘supply’. Its Latin ancestor prōvidēre, formed with the prefix prō- ‘before’, meant ‘foresee’ – a sense which survived into English: ‘evident and sufficient signs, whereby may be provided and foreseen the aborcement [abortion] before it comes’, Thomas Raynalde, Birth of Mankind 1545.But already in Latin it had moved on to ‘exercise foresight by making preparations’, and this formed the basis of the later ‘supply’. Other English descendants of prōvidēre include improvise, provident [15] (a close relative of prudent), provision [14], proviso [15], and purvey [13].=> improvise, provision, proviso, prudent, purvey, vision
- provide (v.)
- early 15c., from Latin providere "look ahead, prepare, supply, act with foresight," from pro- "ahead" (see pro-) + videre "to see" (see vision). Related: Provided; providing. Earlier in same sense was purvey, which is the same word as deformed in Old French.
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Example
- 1. Some say that market makers provide a service .
- 2. What type of benefit offerings should I provide in my company ?
- 3. If so , who will provide it ?
- 4. He declined to provide unit sales numbers .
- 5. Suggest other offerings you can provide . "