PROVISION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does provision mean? 

• PROVISION (noun)
  The noun PROVISION has 4 senses:

1. a stipulated condition

2. the activity of supplying or providing something

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

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

  Familiarity information: PROVISION used as a noun is uncommon.

• PROVISION (verb)
  The verb PROVISION has 1 sense:

1. supply with provisions

  Familiarity information: PROVISION used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROVISION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stipulated condition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

provision; proviso

Context example:

he accepted subject to one provision

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 2

Meaning:

The activity of supplying or providing something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

provision; supply; supplying

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 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

planning; preparation; provision

Context example:

his planning for retirement was hindered by several uncertainties

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 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)

• PROVISION (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they provision    ... he / she / it provisions   
Past simple: provisioned   
Past participle: provisioned   
-ing form: provisioning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Supply with provisions

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

provision; purvey

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)

 Context examples 

While Maud was passing me the provisions and I was storing them in the boat, a sailor came on deck from the forecastle.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But my aunt had her own ideas concerning London provision, and ate but little.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

On the contrary, the knowing that there was such a provision for me probably did bias me.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Our stores of provisions, supplemented by our guns, were holding out well, but the day must come when they would need replenishment.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Evaluating the safety provisions in a device used for medical imaging, i.e., if the device can cause injury to individuals during imaging process (visualizing the structure and function of the body).

(Device Radiologic Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

An organization that provides healthcare services or that is involved in the provision of health care activities.

(Health Care Organization, NCI Thesaurus)

We had soon touched land in the same place as before and set to provision the block house.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Already he had learned to bless his father for that wise provision which had made him seek to know the world ere he had ventured to renounce it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

My provision of the salt, which had never been renewed since the date of the first experiment, began to run low.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)