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