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PROVISION

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The activity of supplying or providing something

Synonyms:

provision; supply; supplying

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("provision" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "provision"):

irrigation (supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc)

alimentation; feeding (the act of supplying food and nourishment)

fueling; refueling (the activity of supplying or taking on fuel)

care delivery; health care delivery; healthcare delivery (the provision of health care)

issuance; issue; issuing (the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity))

logistics (handling an operation that involves providing labor and materials be supplied as needed)

purveyance (the act of supplying something)

stocking (the activity of supplying a stock of something)

subvention (the act or process of providing aid or help of any sort)

Derivation:

provide (give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance)

provide (supply means of subsistence; earn a living)

provide (give something useful or necessary to)

provision (supply with provisions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening

Example:

his planning for retirement was hindered by several uncertainties

Synonyms:

planning; preparation; provision

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("provision" is a kind of...):

cerebration; intellection; mentation; thinking; thought; thought process (the process of using your mind to consider something carefully)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "provision"):

agreement; arrangement (the thing arranged or agreed to)

applecart (the planning that is disrupted when someone 'upsets the applecart')

malice aforethought; mens rea ((law) criminal intent; the thoughts and intentions behind a wrongful act (including knowledge that the act is illegal); often at issue in murder trials)

calculation; deliberation (planning something carefully and intentionally)

forethought; premeditation (planning or plotting in advance of acting)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A stipulated condition

Example:

he accepted subject to one provision

Synonyms:

provision; proviso

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("provision" is a kind of...):

condition; precondition; stipulation (an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else)

Derivation:

provide (determine (what is to happen in certain contingencies), especially by including a proviso condition or stipulation)

provisionary (under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A store or supply of something (especially of food or clothing or arms)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("provision" is a kind of...):

fund; stock; store (a supply of something available for future use)

Derivation:

provision (supply with provisions)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Supply with provisions

Synonyms:

provision; purvey

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "provision" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

provision (the activity of supplying or providing something)

provision (a store or supply of something (especially of food or clothing or arms))

provisioner (a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army)

Credits

 Context examples: 

She is the natural daughter of nobody knows whom, with probably no settled provision at all, and certainly no respectable relations.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Cardiac/Vascular nursing is the provision of comprehensive nursing care to individuals diagnosed with cardiac/vascular disease as well as those identified at risk for cardiac/vascular events.

(Cardiac/Vascular Nursing, NCI Thesaurus)

I put my cows and sheep into my coat-pockets, and got on board with all my little cargo of provisions.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The extent of damage depends on the length and intensity of exposure and time until provision of treatment.

(Burn, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

He brought in our furs, and made a snug nest for me, and got out some provisions and forced them upon me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The facility which provides a setting with provisions for monitoring and delivering babies.

(Birth Facility, NCI Thesaurus)

The study reports notable increase in biomass and regeneration of forests close to villages that use biogas for cooking, as compared to forests near villages without biogas provision.

(Shift to biogas helps revive forests, SciDev.Net)

Medical-Surgical Nursing includes the provision of care to individuals who have a known or predicted physiological alteration.

(Medical-Surgical Nursing, NCI Thesaurus)

The Panel is governed by the provisions of Public Law 92-463, as amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2).

(NCI Special Emphasis Panel, NCI Thesaurus)

I exchanged my land-sledge for one fashioned for the inequalities of the Frozen Ocean, and purchasing a plentiful stock of provisions, I departed from land.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)