provision

Forms

1.An item of goods or supplies, especially food, obtained for future use.
2.The act of providing, or making previous preparation.
3.Money set aside for a future event.
4.A liability or contra account to recognise likely future adverse events associated with current transactions.
- We increased our provision for bad debts on credit sales going into the recession.

1.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.
- A solution is to provision new systems on a private network where they can receive updates, patches, and secure configurations from an internal repository before being placed into a production network.
2.To supply with provisions.
- An emancipated slave must be provisioned by the master.
- We had soon touched land in the same place as before and set to provision the blockhouse. All three made the first journey, heavily laden, and tossed our stores over the palisade.

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From Middle English provisioun

From Old French provisïon

From Latin prōvīsiō (“preparation, foresight”)

From prōvidēre (“provide”).