provide

verb
pro·vide
prə-vīdʹ

To make a living; earn money for necessities.

Example

“It is difficult to provide for my family working on minimum wage.”

Other meanings

To act to prepare for something.
“provide against disaster.”
To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
“The contract provides that the work be well done.”

Synonyms

bring home the bacon

Related words

disprovide
foreprovide
misprovide
preprovide
providable
providee
reprovide
underprovide
unprovide
improvided
nonprovided
underprovided

Example sentences

“Can the market provide for all the people?”
Tatoeba · Igider · CC0
“Hunger never provides for anyone.”
Tatoeba · AmarMecheri · CC0
“However, the company does not provide technical support for the application.”
Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Word history

From Latin "prōvideō".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “provide” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.