provides

verb

To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.

To furnish (with), cause to be present, supply.

To act to prepare for something.

To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.

To make possible or attainable.

To make a living; earn money for necessities.

To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.

(obsolete, Latinism) To foresee, to consider in advance.

Roots

propro- · Latin · forth, forward videre-vid · Latin · to see

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