provide

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To furnish; supply: provide food and shelter for a family.
2. v. To make available; afford: a room that provides ample sunlight through French windows.
3. v. To set down as a stipulation: an agreement that provides deadlines for completion of the work.
4. v. Archaic To make ready ahead of time; prepare.
5. v. To take measures in preparation: provided for the common defense of the states in time of war.
6. v. To supply means of subsistence: She provides for her family by working in a hospital.
7. v. To make a stipulation or condition: The Constitution provides for a bicameral legislature.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To foresee; look forward to.
2. To procure beforehand; get, collect, or make ready for future use; prepare.
3. To furnish; supply: now often followed by with, but formerly also by of.
4. To make ready; prepare.
5. To make or lay down as a previous arrangement, guaranty, or provision; make a previous condition, supposition, or understanding: as, the agreement provides that the party shall incur no loss.
6. Eccles., to grant the right to be in future presented to a benefice which is not vacant at the time of the grant. See provision, 8.
7. To procure or furnish supplies, means of defense, or the like: as, to provide liberally for the table.
8. To take measures for counteracting or escaping something: often followed by against or for.
9. To make ready; prepare.

Wiktionary

1. v. To make a living; earn money for necessities.
2. v. To act to prepare for something.
3. v. To determine the form of some situations, by means of a stipulation or condition.
4. v. To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
5. v. To furnish with, cause to be present.
6. v. To make possible or attainable.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.
2. v. To supply; to afford; to contribute.
3. v. To furnish; to supply; -- formerly followed by of, now by with.
4. v. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
5. v. obsolete To foresee.
6. v. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See Provisor.
7. v. To procure supplies or means in advance; to take measures beforehand in view of an expected or a possible future need, especially a danger or an evil; -- followed by against or for
8. v. To stipulate previously; to condition.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain
2. v. determine (what is to happen in certain contingencies), especially by including a proviso condition or stipulation
3. v. give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
4. v. take measures in preparation for
5. v. give something useful or necessary to
6. v. supply means of subsistence; earn a living
7. v. mount or put up