English Dictionary

provide

IPA（発音記号）

/pɹəˈvaɪd/

動詞

ラテン語由来 廃用

To make a living; earn money for necessities. / To act to prepare for something. / To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate. / To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.

日本語の意味

生計を立てる / 準備する、あるいは備える / 条件として定める / 必要なもの、特に基本的な必要性を提供する

She decided to provide by opening a small bakery in her neighborhood.

彼女は近所に小さなベーカリーを開いて生計を立てることに決めた。

意味（1）

To make a living; earn money for necessities.

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

意味（2）

To act to prepare for something.

provide against disaster.

意味（3）

To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.

The contract provides that the work be well done.

意味（4）

To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.

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

意味（5）

To furnish (with), cause to be present.

Rome […] was generally well provided with corn.

意味（6）

To make possible or attainable.

He provides us with an alternative option.

意味（7）

(obsolete, Latinism) To foresee, to consider in advance.

, 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.

意味（8）

To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.

provide such natives to the higher dignities of the church

provides （ present singular third-person ）

providing （ participle present ）

provided （ participle past ）

provided （ past ）