Usually means: Supply of goods or services.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word provision:

General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. provision: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. provision: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. provision: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. provision: Collins English Dictionary
  5. provision: Vocabulary.com
  6. Provision, provision: Wordnik
  7. provision: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. provision: Wiktionary
  9. provision: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. provision: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. provision: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. provision: Dictionary.com
  13. provision (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. provision: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Provision (accounting), Provision (album), Provision (contracting), Provision: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Provision: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. provision: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. provision: Rhymezone
  19. provision, provision (f), provisin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. provision: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. provision: Free Dictionary
  22. provision: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. provision: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. provision: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. provision: Mnemonic Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. PROVISION: Accounting Glossary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Provision: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  5. provision: Legal dictionary
  6. Provision: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  9. Provision: Investopedia

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. provision: Encyclopedia

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Provision: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See provisioned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An item of goods or supplies, especially food, obtained for future use.
noun:  The act of providing, or making previous preparation.
noun:  Money set aside for a future event.
noun:  (accounting) A liability or contra account to recognise likely future adverse events associated with current transactions.
noun:  (law) A clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
noun:  (Roman Catholicism) Regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation.
noun:  (British, historical) A nomination by the pope to a benefice before it became vacant, depriving the patron of his right of presentation.
verb:  (transitive) To supply with provisions.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To supply (a user) with an account, resources, etc. so that they can use a system; to install the necessary software on a bare-bones system so it can be used for a specific purpose.

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