Dictionary Definition
provision
Noun
1 a stipulated condition; "he accepted subject to
one provision" [syn: proviso]
3 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" [syn: planning, preparation]
4 a store or supply of something (especially of
food or clothing or arms) v : supply with provisions [syn: purvey]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Etymology
From provision.Translations
an item of goods or supplies obtained for future
use
- French: provision
- Irish: lón
- Japanese: 支給, 配給
financial money set aside for a future event
- French: provision
- Japanese: 準備高
Synonyms
Related terms
Translations
to supply with provisions
- French: provisionner (only in the financial meaning)
- Japanese: 支給する
Finnish
Noun
provisionFrench
Noun
fr-noun fExtensive Definition
Provision may refer to:
- Provision (Accounting), a term for liability in accounting
- Provision (musical group), a Texas synthpop band
- Provision (military), food and other supplies needed in field
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
TLC,
abundance, accommodation, accordance, accumulation, amassment, anticipation, arrangement, award, awarding, backlog, basic training,
bestowal, bestowment, board, boundary condition,
bread, bread and butter,
briefing, budget, bunker, care, catch, cater, catering, cheer, clause, clearing the decks,
coal, collection, comestibles, commissariat, commissary, communication, concession, condition, conferment, conferral, contemplation, contribution, cornucopia, creature comfort,
cuisine, cumulation, daily bread,
deliverance,
delivery, demand, dine, discretion, donation, donnee, dump, eatables, economic support,
edibles, endowment, envisagement, envisionment, equipment, escalator clause,
escape clause, escape hatch, exception, familiarization,
fare, farseeingness, farsightedness, fast
food, feast, feed, fill up, fine print, fitting
out, fixing, fodder, food, food and drink, foodstuff, foodstuffs, forage, forearming, forecast, foreglance, foregleam, foreglimpse, forehandedness, foreseeing, foresight, foresightedness,
forethought,
forethoughtfulness,
foundation, fuel, furnishing, furnishment, gas, gas up, gifting, given, giving, grant, granting, grass, gratify, graze, groceries, grounds, groundwork, health food,
heap, hoard, hooker, impartation, impartment, ingesta, insurance, inventory, investiture, joker, junk food, keep, kicker, kitchen stuff, larder, liberality, limiting
condition, livelihood, living, longsightedness, looking
ahead, maintenance,
makeready, making
ready, manna, manufacture, mass, material, materials, materiel, measures, meat, mess, mobilization, mothering, munitions, nourishment, nurture, obligation, offer, oil, outfitting, parameter, pasture, pile, planning, plenitude, plenty, prearrangement, precaution, precautions, precautiousness,
prediction, preliminaries, preliminary, preliminary
act, preliminary step, prep, preparation, preparatory
study, preparing,
prepping, prepublication, prerequisite, presentation, presentment, pretreatment, preventive
measure, preview,
prevision, price
support, processing,
propaedeutic,
prospect, prospection, protection, provender, providence, providing, provisioning, provisionment, provisions, proviso, prudence, purvey, purveyance, qualification, quantity, rations, readiness, readying, regale, repertoire, repertory, requirement, requisite, reservation, restriction, rick, safeguard, sagacity, satisfy, saving clause, sell, sine qua non, small print,
spadework, specification, spread, stack, staples, steps, steps and measures,
stipulation,
stock, stock-in-trade,
stockpile, stocks, store, stores, string, strings, subscription, subsidization, subsidy, subsistence, subvention, supplies, supply, supply on hand, supplying, support, surrender, sustain, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, table, tender loving care,
term, terms, top off, training, treasure, treasury, treatment, trial, tryout, tucker, ultimatum, upkeep, viands, victual, victuals, vittles, vouchsafement, warm-up,
whereas, wine and
dine