provide

It is difficult to provide for my family working on minimum wage.

provide against disaster.

The contract provides that the work be well done.

Don't bother bringing equipment, as we will provide it.

Rome […] was generally well provided with corn.

He provides us with an alternative option.

, Act 5, Scene 10, in Gifford’s 1816 edition volume III page 144

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.

provide such natives to the higher dignities of the church