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Definition of Provision

Provision The act of providing, or making previous preparation. That which is provided or prepared; that which is brought together or arranged in advance; measures taken beforehand; preparation. Especially, a stock of food; any kind of eatables collected or stored; -- often in the plural. That which is stipulated in advance; a condition; a previous agreement; a proviso; as, the provisions of a contract; the statute has many provisions. A canonical term for regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation. A nomination by the pope to a benefice before it became vacant, depriving the patron of his right of presentation. To supply with food; to victual; as, to provision a garrison. Related Definitions: Act, Advance, Agreement, And, Any, Arranged, As, Became, Before, Beforehand, Benefice, Brought, By, Collation, Collected, Comprehending, Condition, Contract, Depriving, Especially, Food, For, Garrison, His, Has, In, Induction, Installation, Into, Is, It, Kind, Making, Many, Nomination, Of, Often, Or, Patron, Plural, Pope, Preparation, Prepared, Presentation, Previous, Provided, Providing, Provision, Proviso, Regular, Right, Statute, Stipulated, Stock, Stored, Supply, Taken, Term, That, The, To, Together, Vacant, Victual, Which, With

Provision Quotations This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it. Voltaire Education is the best provision for old age. Aristotle Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state. Lester B. Pearson In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. Nathaniel Hawthorne Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. Jonathan Swift

Provision Translations provision in German is Vorsorge

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