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Meaning provision meaning

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provision Noun

— A provision is an item that is kept by a person that he needs to support himself for the future. He kept a provision of food with him for the trip. — A provision is something that is given to a person to help him provide for needs of his. — A provision is a law that makes an exception or special rule for a specific situation.

provision

— noun a stipulated condition he accepted subject to one provision — noun (= supply, supplying) the activity of supplying or providing something — verb supply with provisions — noun (= planning) the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening his planning for retirement was hindered by several uncertainties — noun a store or supply of something (especially of food or clothing or arms)

Synonyms provision synonyms

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provision English » English

supply preparation condition clause supplying procurement food stock proviso store article term stipulation provide equipment victual reserve requirement purvey provisioning grant delivery arrangement victuals victualling stockpile section rule resource reserves regulation readiness purchasing providing planning payment item inventory giving forethought feed equip arrivals arrival arrangements allowance administration willingness warehouse thesis

Conjugation provision conjugation

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provision · verb

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I seem to remember some additional injunctive provision. dealing with the property of foreigners residing in France.
Did she make any provision in her will about being cremated after her death?
Would you tell the jury what provision she did make?
For this abounding provision, O Lord, we thank thee.
At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge, it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute.
Where's the provision determining the ratio of invested capital to controlling interest?
I made provision for precisely that sort of eventuality.
Each truthful provision of that prophecy has come to pass, without the slightest help from you.
If it's customary here to allow a man charged with first-degree murder to wander about at will, I don't suppose it behoves an outsider to point out that the law makes no provision for such quaint liberalism.
Provision enough for Egypt, they say.
Because the lapse of time, the relaxation of sleep, the provision of food, all these things will give them a false sense of security.
According to the last published government plan, there is no provision made for granting the facilities of evacuation to able-bodied men over the age of 18.
You're the one good thing I didn't make provision for. ln case you're sloppy.
Was there anything in that will that made provision for you?
All moneys and valuables which may come into our possession. shall be lumped together into a common fund. and from this fund shall first be taken the money. to fit, rig, and provision the ship.
We shall have provision.
She was anxious about her mother. And she wished to make a provision for her.
Where's the provision determining the ratio of investment to controlling interest?
I remember the ancient German freighter, brooding at her moorings coal bunkers and provision rooms more than half empty with the unsafe waters of two oceans between her and home.
He has a galley waiting at the coast. Provision enough for Egypt, they say.
Isn't there some sort of provision in the constitution?
Did the will make any provision for you?
Acting on our own. unofficially as privateers. we can provision Jamaica then smash Morgan.
Could I ask you what provision you made for the wounded?
At this festive season of the year, it seems desirable that those of us with means should make some provision for the poor and destitute who suffer greatly at this time.
Though I doubt anyone can point out the actual provision to me.
I'm not either, but I can assure you after I talk to Quark, he won't hold you to this provision concerning the exchange.
I am sure that Simeon intended to make provision for Pilar in a new will.
And so, having made every provision for the comfort of the wounded, I made my way back as quickly as possible.
It's a standard provision in all Ferengi labor contracts.
Rule 11, a civil provision to prevent frivolous and irresponsible lawsuits like this, and sanction quite severely those who file them.

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His bill also contains an important provision aimed at encouraging open-source research, which would move the current research model away from secrecy toward sharing.
Above all, however, the permanent public provision of cheap credit would ultimately lead to a lingering infirmity, if not to Europe's economic collapse, because the eurozone would become a central management system with state control over investment.
In the meantime, both sides risk disrupting transfer payments (including to the elderly) and the provision of public services, as well as eroding further America's global credit standing.
Implementing liquidity provision policies like those advocated by Bagehot would prevent bank panics without the incentive for undue risk-taking associated with deposit insurance.
They lie in the realm of optimal pricing and marketing mechanisms, regulation of monopolies, natural-resource management, public-goods provision, and finance.
When governments have taken similar steps, they usually have done so after - or at least alongside - the provision of financial injections and efforts to restrain demand.
Unfortunately, provision and regulation of genetic enhancement technology will not be easy.
Costa Rica, for example, has already shown that a system of paying for the provision of environmental services (like maintaining natural forests) can work in ways that preserve the environment and boost the economy.
Otherwise, disputes about fulfillment of this or that provision will lead the entire process back into the familiar quicksand of Middle East futility.
The principles of America's Chapter 11 bankruptcy law - the provision which allows rapid reorganization of firms in ways that maintain its economic activity, should underlay whatever rules are adopted.
The private projects will include the provision of infrastructure, the cost of which is to be repaid through tolls or user fees collected by a private operator.
At the same time, local governments' difficulties are having an adverse effect on provision of clean water and proper sanitation, which are vitally important for polio eradication and public health more broadly.
It is no surprise that the big banks succeeded in stopping some essential reforms; what was a surprise was a provision in the US Senate's bill that banned government-insured entities from underwriting risky derivatives.
The Senate bill's provision on derivatives is a good litmus test: the Obama administration and the Fed, in opposing these restrictions, have clearly lined up on the side of big banks.
For example, among the Luhya in Western Kenya, it is not uncommon for Muslims to slaughter animals during funerals, even though, strictly speaking, there is no such provision in Islam.
As a result, placing so many eggs in one basket leaves the business of aid provision looking increasingly risky.
This should include the provision of defensive lethal assistance to Ukrainian forces; after all, strength deters and weakness provokes.
This includes addressing China's patchy arrangements for income security, as well as its unevenly distributed provision of social services, such as health and education, in particular, in rural areas.
Household income must rise, and, with more ample provision of social security, insurance, and services, precautionary savings should fall.
The provision was then passed after it was attached to a last-minute spending bill - a tactic that ensured very little debate in the House of Representatives and none at all in the Senate.
The provision of liquidity, the recapitalization of banks, more uniform deposit insurance across the advanced countries - these were all correct and necessary measures.
For example, more coherent and generous approaches to the provision of temporary work visas would benefit both migrants and Europeans.
The package includes the provision of land to industrialists at dramatically reduced prices, tax exemptions of up to seven years for factory owners, and low-interest loans of up to ten years for farmers.
The resulting rise in social tensions is being addressed through expanded provision of rural services, investment in urban infrastructure and service provision, and regularization of migrants' status.
There, even many of the most dedicated opponents of apartheid favored the provision of the 1993 Temporary Constitution that required an amnesty.

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