Usually means: Supply what is necessary for.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word provide:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. provide: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. provide: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. provide: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. provide: Collins English Dictionary
  5. provide: Vocabulary.com
  6. Provide, provide, provide: Wordnik
  7. Provide, provide: Dictionary.com
  8. provide: Online Etymology Dictionary
  9. provide: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Provide: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. provide: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. provide: Rhymezone
  13. provide: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. provide: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. provide: Free Dictionary
  16. provide: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. provide: Dictionary/thesaurus
  18. provide: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  19. provide: Wiktionary
  20. provide: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  21. provide: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  22. provide: Infoplease Dictionary
  23. provide: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. provide: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. provide: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. PROVIDE: Acronym Finder
  3. provide: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To make a living; earn money for necessities.
verb:  To act to prepare for something.
verb:  To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
verb:  To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
verb:  To furnish (with), cause to be present.
verb:  To make possible or attainable.
verb:  (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee, to consider in advance.
verb:  To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.

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