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Definition: Provident |
ProvidentAdjective1. Providing carefully for the future; "wild squirrels are provident"; "a provident father plans for his children's education". 2. Careful in regard to your own interests; "the prudent use and development of resources"; "wild squirrels are provident". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "provident" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Etymology: Provident \Prov"i*dent\, adjective. [Latin expression providens, -entis, present participle of providere: compare to the French expression provident. See Provide, and compare to Prudent.]. (references) |
Synonyms: ProvidentSynonyms: cautious, economical, frugal. (additional references) |
| Antonym: improvident (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Care | Adjective: careful regardful, heedful; taking care; Verb: particular; prudent; (cautious); considerate; thoughtful; (deliberative); provident; (prepared); alert; (active); sure-footed. |
Foresight | Adjective: foreseeing; Verb: prescient; farseeing, farsighted; sagacious; (intelligent); weatherwise; provident; (prepared); prospective. |
Intelligence Wisdom | Prudent; (cautious); sober, stand, solid; considerate, politic, wise in one's generation; watchful; provident; (prepared); in advance of one' age; wise as a serpent, wise as Solomon, wise as Solon. |
Preparation | Precautionary, provident; preparative, preparatory; provisional, inchoate, under revision; preliminary; (precedent). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Provident |
| English words defined with "provident": improvident ♦ Overprovident ♦ providently, Providentness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "provident": federation of mutual societies ♦ provision of false information by a provident institution. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "provident": Prudent. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Edmund Burke | Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Moreover, most Singaporeans have extra disposable income since they are able to finance their housing purchases from their Central Provident Funds (national pension plan). (references) | |
Economic History | Singapore | During economic slumps in 1986 and 1998, the government used reductions in employer contributions to the Central Provident Fund (CPF, a forced savings and social security plan) to lower employment costs and try to safeguard jobs. (references) |
Singapore | In order to increase the pool of domestic funds available for professional management, the Central Provident Fund (CPF) Investment Scheme was further liberalized and certain restrictions on the investing of CPF funds were lifted. (references) | |
Singapore | On June 30, 2001, the Government announced that QFBs will be able to offer Supplementary Retirement Scheme accounts and Central Provident Fund investment accounts, also effective July 1, 2002. The Government also announced it will move from the present license regime for banks (full, restricted, and offshore) to a new regime that distinguishes only between retail and non-retail (wholesale) banks. (references) | |
Political Economy | SINGAPORE | The Central Provident Fund (CPF), a compulsory savings program that requires 36 percent of an individual's salary to be placed in a tax-exempt account, is the principal reason for the high gross national savings rate of about 50 percent of GDP. (references) |
Trade | Zimbabwe | Other key players in Zimbabwe's financial sector include insurance companies, pension and provident funds, investment trusts and offshore portfolio investors. (references) |
Malaysia | In the past, major infrastructure projects have been funded by a variety of means: Malaysian government funds, the domestic capital markets, banks and investment funds like the Employee Provident Fund, international consortia, and supplier credits. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Maldives | With the help of the ILO, two draft labor laws were prepared in 1998: One to address issues such as the right of association, the right to organize, and acceptable work conditions related to health, environment, employer-employee relations, leave, and termination, and the other to deal with social security, pensions, and provident funds. (references) |
Nepal | Health and safety standards and other benefits such as a provident fund and maternity benefits also are established in the act. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Our experience ought to satisfy us that our progress under the most correct and provident policy will not be exempt from danger. |
Martin van Buren | 1837-1841 | This provident forecast has been verified by time. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Provident" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Provident" is used about 57 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 66.67% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Noun (proper) | 17.54% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (singular) | 15.79% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 57 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Provident Financial PLC | USA | Provident Bancorp, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "provident": national confederation of mutual provident societies ♦ provident fund ♦ provident society ♦ provision of false information by a provident institution. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "provident": all-provident. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| Language | Translations for "provident"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | parashikues (diviner, predictive, predictor, prescient, prophet, seer, up and coming), i matur (abstinent, calculating, canny, careful, cautious, chary, chaste, circumlocutory, circumspect, circumspective, conservative, deliberate, discreet, forehanded, gingerly, judicious, moderate, prudent, reasonable, sober, staid, thoughtful, wary, well advised, well balanced), i kursyer (abstemious, abstinent, careful, cheap, close, economic, frugal, penurious, skimpy, thrifty). (various references) | |
Arabic | مقتصد (careful, chary, economical, frugal, saving, scant, spare, sparing, thrifty), موفر (saving, thrifty), حكيم (canny, clever, compos mentis, discreet, doctor, judicious, philosopher, physician, politic, prudent, sage, sapient, well advised, wise, wise man), بعيد النظر (far sighted, far-seeing, long sighted, penetrating, telescopic). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | предвидлив (designing, farsighted, forehanded, foreseeing, foresighted, perspicacious), пестелив (abstemious, canny, economical, forehanded, frugal, husbandly, near, parsimonious, saving, spare, sparing, thrifty). (various references) | |
Czech | prozíravý (clear-sighted, farseeing, farsighted, forethoughtful, judicious, politic, sagacious, wise), obezřetný (cautious, circumspect, deliberate, politic, prudent, wary). (various references) | |
Danish | pensionsfond (pension fund, provident fund, retirement fund), ydelser til efterladte (provident fund for survivors, survivors'benefits), udgiftsdækkende bistandshjælp (principle of provident funds), spare-og pensionskasse (savings and provident bank), sociale foranstaltninger for efterblevne (provident fund for survivors, survivors'benefits), Faellesskabernes institutioners faelles foreloebige pensionsordning (temporary joint provident scheme of the institutions of the Communities), den nationale sammenslutning af sociale forsikringsselskaber (national confederation of mutual provident societies). (various references) | |
Dutch | prestaties aan nabestaanden (provident fund for survivors, survivors'benefits), voorlopig gemeenschappelijk voorzieningsfonds van de instellingen der Gemeenschappen (temporary joint provident scheme of the institutions of the Communities), uitkeringen aan nagelaten betrekkingen (provident fund for survivors, survivors'benefits), Stichting Voorzieningsfonds voor Kunstenaars (Artists' Provident Fund), spaarbank (savings and provident bank), nationale confederatie van ondernemingen van sociale verzekering (national confederation of mutual provident societies), Fonds voor onderling hulpbetoon (pension fund, provident fund, retirement fund), bijstand voor nabestaanden (provident fund for survivors, survivors'benefits). (various references) | |
Farsi | مال اندیش (Circumspect), مشیتی , خوشبخت (Blest), اینده نگر. (various references) | |
French | prudent (prudent), prévoyant. (various references) | |
German | vorsorglich (cautious, forehanded, precautionary, preventative, preventive, providently), vorsorgend (providently), vorfürsorglich, vorausschauend (foresighted, prospective, providently). (various references) | |
Greek | προβλεπτικόσ (forehanded, prescient, previsional), προνοητικόσ (anticipatory, far sighted, long sighted). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חסכ י (chary, economical, frugal, sparing, thrifty). (various references) | |
Hungarian | körültekintõ (canny, circumspect, prudent, wary), elõrelátó (anticipatory, far-seeing, forehanded, forethoughtful, longsighted, politic, prescient). (various references) | |
Italian | provvido, previdente (wise). (various references) | |
Manx | kiarailagh (careful, careful in money, careful person, frugal, pinch-penny, saver, saving), gressagh (industrious), foddey-reayrtagh (far-sighted, long-sighted, prospective). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ovidentpray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | prudente (advised, canny, careful, cattish, cautious, chary, circumspective, discreet, far-seeing, far-sighted, forehanded, heedful, long-sighted, non-committal, politic, prudent, prudential, reasonable, sagacious, sage, sensible, sound, wary, well-advised, well-judged, wise, wizard), providente, previdente (far-sighted, forehanded, long-sighted, thoughtful), poupado (economic, economical, parsimonious, sparing, thrifty), parcimonioso (lenten, parsimonious, thrifty), frugal (abstemious, abstinent, canny, chary, close, frugal, parsimonious, sparing, thrifty), econômico (chary, cheap, economic, economical, forehanded, frugal, parsimonious, pay, saving, sparing, thrifty). (various references) | |
Romanian | prevãzãtor (cautious, chary, deliberate, discreet, far-seeing, providently, prudent, thoughtful, wary, wide awake, wise), strângãtor (accumulative, acquisitive, collector, economical, gatherer, parsimonious, sparing, stretcher), econom (bursar, careful, economical, managing, parsimonious, saving, sparing, thrifty, treasurer), chibzuit (balanced, canny, cautious, circumspect, deliberate, discreet, economic, economical, judicious, measured, providently, prudent, reflective, thought-out, thrifty, wary, wise). (various references) | |
Russian | расчетливый (calculating, hardheaded, prudent), предусмотрительный (far-seeing, forethoughtful, forward-looking, long-headed, prudent). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | predostrožan (cautious, precautionary, providential, vigilant). (various references) | |
Spanish | providente, previsor (anticipatory, farsighted, long sighted, previsional, thoughtful). (various references) | |
Swedish | sparsam (economical, frugal, saving, scanty, sparing, thrifty), förutseende (anticipative, anticipatory, far sighted, farsighted, forehanded, foreseeing, foresight, forethought, forethoughtful, forward-looking, long sighted, prevision, wise), förtänksam (prudent). (various references) | |
Turkish | tutumlu (canny, careful, carefully, chary, frugal, prudent, prudential, saving, sparing, thrifty), tasarruf (austerity, economy, possession, Providence, retrenchment, saving, thriftiness), ihtiyatlı (cagey, cautious, chary, deliberative, discreet, fabian, forethoughtful, guarded, heedful, politic, precautionary, prudent, prudential, restrained, shy, temperate, undemonstrative, vigilant, waiting, wary, well advised), hazırlıklı (fail-proof, fail-safe, prepared, ready). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ощадливий (abstemious, canny, chary, economic, economical, frugal, housewifely, inexpensive, parsimonious, prudent, saving, scanty), обачний (awake, canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, circumspective, deliberate, fly, guarded, hard-headed, prudent, wary, wise), передбачливий (cautious, clairvoyant, forehanded, foreseeing, precautious, prescient). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tiết kiệm (managing, sparing, thrifty), lo xa, biết lo trước, biết dự phòng tằn tiện. (various references) | |
Welsh | darbodus (thrifty). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | provide, providi. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "provident": providential, providentially, providently. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "provident": improvident. (additional references) | |
Words containing "provident": improvidently. (additional references) | |
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"Provident" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: povidone, praident, probident. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "provident" (pronounced prÄ"vudunt) |
| 6 | -v u d u n t | evident. |
| 5 | -u d u n t | antioxidant, accident, coincident, confident, decadent, dissident, incident, nonresident, overconfident, oxidant, precedent, resident. |
| 4 | -d u n t | antecedent, ardent, abundant, ascendant, attendant, corespondent, correspondent, imprudent, decedent, defendant, dependent, descendant, descendent, despondent, discordant, independent, interdependent, mordant, pendant, prudent, redundant, resplendent, respondent, retardant, rodent, strident, student, superintendent, transcendent, trident, verdant. |
| 3 | -u n t | agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antidepressant, antigovernment, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, absent, absorbent, abstinent, accelerant, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, cormorant, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, inadvertent, incandescent, debarment, debasement, decent, declarant, decongestant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, incessant, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overpayment, overstatement, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resilient, resistant, resonant, restatement, resultant, resurgent, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, stringent, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-n-o-p-r-t-v" | |
-1 letter: dipteron. | |
-2 letters: diopter, dioptre, overtip, peridot, pivoted, pointed, pointer, portend, printed, proteid, protein, protend, provide, tropine. | |
-3 letters: deport, devoir, dinero, dipnet, divert, dopier, dotier, driven, editor, invert, ironed, nevoid, norite, opined, orient, orpine, period, pinder, podite, pointe, ponder, ponied, ported, privet, protei, proved, proven, pterin, redipt, redtop, renvoi, rident, rioted, rodent, tinder, tonier. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-n-o-p-r-t-v" | |
+2 letters: depravation, deprivation, improvident, overprinted, providently. | |
+3 letters: depravations, deprivations, privatdocent, privatdozent, providential, unproductive. | |
+4 letters: improvidently, nondisruptive, nonproductive, privatdocents, privatdozents. | |
+5 letters: nondescriptive, overproduction, predevaluation, productiveness, providentially. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Quotations: Speeches 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Names: Company Usage 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Translations: Ancient 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Bibliography |
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