provide
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(verb) determine (what is to happen in certain contingencies), esp. by including a proviso condition; "The will provides that each child should receive half of the money" |
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Related Words: condition, qualify, specify, stipulate |
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(verb) provide what is desired or needed, esp. support, food or sustenance; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests" |
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Synonyms: cater, ply, supply |
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Related Words: accommodate, board, cater, dish, dish out, dish up, drench, feed, fill, fix up, fulfil, fulfill, give, give, gratify, grub, gutter, help, horse, indulge, meet, nourish, nurture, pander, pimp, power, regale, satisfy, serve, serve up, shower, staff, sustain, treat |
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(verb) provide or furnish with; "We provided the room with an electrical heater" |
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Synonyms: furnish, render, supply |
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Related Words: afford, arm, articulate, bed, berth, bewhisker, bield, bottom, brattice, bush, buy in, calk, canal, canalize, caption, causeway, charge, cleat, cloy, coal, computerize, constitutionalize, copperbottom, corbel, cornice, costume, crenel, crenelate, crenellate, curtain, date, equip, extend, feed, fire, fit, fit out, flood, fuel, furnish, gate, give, give, glass, glaze, headline, heat, hobnail, index, innervate, interleave, joint, key, leverage, match, offer, outfit, oversupply, partner, patch, pour, provision, pump, purvey, rafter, ramp, scant, seat, shelter, signalize, skimp, slat, stint, stock, subtitle, surfeit, terrace, terrasse, toggle, tool, upholster, victual, water, whisker, wive, yield |
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(verb) mount or put up; "put up a good fight"; "offer resistance" |
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Synonyms: offer, put up |
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Related Words: engage, wage |
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