transcription, транскрипция: [ prəvaɪd ]
( provides, providing, provided)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
If you provide something that someone needs or wants, or if you provide them with it, you give it to them or make it available to them.
I’ll be glad to provide a copy of this...
They would not provide any details...
The government was not in a position to provide them with food.
= supply
VERB : V n , V n , V n with n
• pro‧vid‧er
(providers)
They remain the main providers of sports facilities.
N-COUNT
2.
If a law or agreement provides that something will happen, it states that it will happen. ( FORMAL )
The treaty provides that, by the end of the century, the United States must have removed its bases...
VERB : V that
3.
see also provided , providing