provision
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
provision/prəˈvɪʒn/
▶noun
- 1 the action of providing or supplying.
■ something supplied or provided.
■ (provision for/against) arrangements for future eventualities or requirements.
- 2 (provisions) supplies of food, drink, or equipment, especially for a journey.
- 3 a condition or requirement in a legal document.
- 4 an amount set aside out of profits in the accounts of an organization for a known liability.
- 5 Christian Church, historical an appointment to a benefice.
- 1 supply with provisions.
- 2 set aside a provision for a known liability.
– derivatives
provisioner noun.
provisioner noun.
'provision' also found in these Oxford entries:
accrue
- alimentation
- allow
- amusement
- appanage
- assistance
- backscratching
- bacon
- board
- care
- contingency
- contractorization
- corrody
- cut
- documentation
- double indemnity
- dry lease
- earn-out
- entertainment
- escape clause
- fire trap
- flanging
- full board
- half board
- health care
- housing
- key money
- livery
- maintenance
- management accounting
- ministration
- multimedia
- orthotics
- outplacement
- PCT
- penates
- provisor
- quartering
- remember
- room service
- school board
- sewerage
- signing
- socialized medicine
- social market economy
- subvention
- sunset
