PROVIDE


Meaning of PROVIDE in English

(~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

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