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pro·vi·sion

(prə-vĭzh′ən)

a. The act of providing or supplying something: the provision of health care; the provision of rations.

b. The act of making preparations for a possible or future event or situation: The provision for retirement requires planning.

a. Something provided: A fire escape is an important provision in a building.

b. provisions Necessary supplies, such as food and clothing, as for a journey.

3. A preparatory action or measure: We must make provisions for riding out the storm.

4. A particular requirement in a law, rule, agreement, or document: the constitutional provision concerned with due process.

v. pro·vi·sioned, pro·vi·sion·ing, pro·vi·sions

v.tr.

To supply with provisions.

v.intr.

To take preparatory action or measures: A bank must provision against losses from bad loans.

[Middle English, from Old French, forethought, from Latin prōvīsiō, prōvīsiōn-, from prōvīsus, past participle of prōvidēre, to foresee, provide for; see provide.]

pro·vi′sion·er n.

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Provisions

a supply of necessaries or materials; a stock or store.

Examples: provision of bread, 1535; of nuts and acorns, 1796; of stewards, 1486; of words, 1690.

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Noun

provisions - a stock or supply of foods

commissariat, viands, victuals, provender

food, nutrient - any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue

food cache - food in a secure or hidden storage place

larder - a supply of food especially for a household

Translations

مؤونَه

potraviny

forsyninger

Nahrungsmittel

provisions

birgîir

viveri clausola provviste scorte [di cibo]

forsyninger proviant

živež

erzak yiyecek

食物供应

provision

(prəˈviʒən) noun

1. the act of providing. The government are responsible for the provision of education for all children.

2. an agreed arrangement.

3. a rule or condition.

verb

to supply (especially an army) with food.

proˈvisional adjective

temporary; appointed, arranged etc only for the present time. a provisional government.

proˈvisionally adverb

proˈvisions noun plural

(a supply of) food. The campers got their provisions at the village shop.

make provision for

to provide what is necessary for. You should make provision for your old age.

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The act from Annapolis recommends the "appointment of commissioners to take into consideration the situation of the United States; to devise SUCH FURTHER PROVISIONS as shall appear to them necessary to render the Constitution of the federal government ADEQUATE TO THE EXIGENCIES OF THE UNION; and to report such an act for that purpose, to the United States in Congress assembled, as when agreed to by them, and afterwards confirmed by the legislature of every State, will effectually provide for the same."

"Resolved, That in the opinion of Congress it is expedient, that on the second Monday of May next a convention of delegates, who shall have been appointed by the several States, be held at Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose OF REVISING THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION, and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such ALTERATIONS AND PROVISIONS THEREIN, as shall, when agreed to in Congress, and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution ADEQUATE TO THE EXIGENCIES OF GOVERNMENT AND THE PRESERVATION OF THE UNION."

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"If no other provisions have been inserted in the document -- or if, being inserted, those other provisions should be discovered to have failed also -- I believe it to be impossible (especially if evidence can be found that the admiral himself considered the Trust binding on him) for the executors to deal with your husband's fortune as legally forming part of Admiral Bartram's estate.

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In framing a government for posterity as well as ourselves, we ought, in those provisions which are designed to be permanent, to calculate, not on temporary, but on permanent causes of expense.

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The clause I now read is as plainly written in the Constitution as any other of its provisions:

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PROVISIONS were now growing scanty in the camp, and Captain Bonneville found it necessary to seek a new neighborhood.

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As to myself, it was determined that I should be set adrift in a small canoe, with paddles and a sail, and four days' provisions; which last, the Japanese captain was so kind to double out of his own stores, and would permit no man to search me.

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Reed, the clerk, and three men were detached to explore the river still further down than the previous scouting parties had been, and at the same time to look out for Indians, from whom provisions might be obtained, and a supply of horses, should it be found necessary to proceed by land.

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All these barges and lighters must be in attendance to form an escort and carry my provisions. The army must be prepared to embark in a fortnight at the very latest."

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With regard to supplies for the army, Napoleon decreed that all the troops in turn should enter Moscow a la maraude* to obtain provisions for themselves, so that the army might have its future provided for.

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The people are forbidden to sell them provisions. The author remonstrates against the usage.

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Sun Tzu said: In the operations of war, where there are in the field a thousand swift chariots, as many heavy chariots, and a hundred thousand mail-clad soldiers, with provisions enough to carry them a thousand li, the expenditure at home and at the front, including entertainment of guests, small items such as glue and paint, and sums spent on chariots and armor, will reach the total of a thousand ounces of silver per day.