provides
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
provide/prəˈvʌɪd/
▶verb
- 1 make available for use; supply.
■ (provide someone with) equip or supply someone with.
- 2 (provide for) make adequate preparation or arrangements for.
■ (of a law) enable or allow (something to be done).
- 3 stipulate in a will or other legal document.
- 4 (provide someone to) Christian Church, historical appoint an incumbent to (a benefice).
– derivatives
provider noun.
provider noun.
– origin ME: from L. providere ‘foresee, attend to’.
'provides' also found in these Oxford entries:
accompanist
- adenosine triphosphate
- agent
- automated teller machine
- backplane
- boatman
- caddie
- cash cow
- central bank
- comforter
- consultant
- coordinate
- document
- donor
- father
- four-wheel drive
- frogfish
- front-wheel drive
- harbinger
- home farm
- host
- hostel
- IMEI
- IRC
- key
- key worker
- lifeline
- light bulb
- masseur
- MC
- nutrient
- outwork
- panda
- power plant
- protectant
- reactor
- rear-wheel drive
- SACD
- service industry
- signal
- single-lens reflex
- sitter
- sombre
- source
- subsistence level
- thermal
- tonic
- traffic island
- turbofan
- vipassana
