provide

动词 v.
中文释义
发音 prə-vīdʹ

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make a living; earn money for necessities.
    — It is difficult to provide for my family working on minimum wage.
  2. To act to prepare for something.
    — provide against disaster.
  3. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
    — The contract provides that the work be well done.
  4. To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
    — Don't bother bringing equipment, as we will provide it.
  5. To furnish (with), cause to be present, supply.
    — Rome […] was generally well provided with corn.
  6. To make possible or attainable.
    — He provides us with an alternative option.
    Comus
  7. To foresee, to consider in advance. Latinism,obsolete
    — We have not been covetous, honourable fathers, to change, neither is it now any new lust that alters our affection, or old lothing, but those needful jealousies of state, that warn wiser princes hourly to provide their safety, and do teach them how learned a thing it is to beware of the humblest enemy; much more of those great ones, whom their own employed favours have made fit for their fears.
  8. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.
    — provide such natives to the higher dignities of the church

词形变化

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词汇关系

衍生词
as provided for disprovide foreprovide improvided misprovide nonprovided preprovide providable providee provider reprovide underprovide underprovided unprovide unprovided
相关词
provision

词源

Inherited from Middle English providen, from Latin prōvidēre (“to foresee, act with foresight”). Doublet of purvey.
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