Provide For

Definition: Provide For

Provide For

Verb

1. Make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain; "This leaves no room for improvement"; "The evidence allows only one conclusion"; "allow for mistakes"; "leave lots of time for the trip".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Provide For

Economy

Save money, invest money; put out to interest; provide for a rainy day, save for a rainy day, provide against a rainy day, save against a rainy day; feather one's nest; look after the main chance.

Crosswords: Provide For

Books

• USEC Privatization Act : hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, first session, on S. 755, a bill to amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to provide for the privatization of the Unite (reference)

• Mississippi Sioux Judgment Fund Distribution Act : hearing before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, first session, on H.R. 976, to provide for the dispostion of certain funds appropriated to pay judgment in (reference)

• Assassination Materials Disclosure Act of 1992 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Economic and Commercial Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, on H.J. Res. 454, to provide for the (reference)

• The Assassination Materials Disclosure Act of 1992 : hearing before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, on S.J. Res. 282, to provide for the expeditious disclosure of records relevant t (reference)

• Family Limited Partnership: How to Protect Your Family Business and Provide for Your Children (Legal Survival Guides) (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Where there is no longer the administration of justice, for the securing of men's rights, nor any remaining power within the community to direct the force, or provide for the necessities of the public, there certainly is no government left. (Second Treatise of Government)

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. (reference)

If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified. (reference)

If the solicitude of the convention, respecting our peace with foreign powers, induced a provision that the supreme court should take original jurisdiction in cases which might be supposed to affect them; yet the clause would have proceeded no further than to provide for such cases, if no further restriction on the powers of congress had been intended. (reference)

They can be removed by the Council of the League of Nations, which will provide for their replacement. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

You provide for the family, you know, (with a smile at his father).

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The 1959 and 1983 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company tables of ranges of weight with minimal mortality do not provide for any age variation. (references)

Business

The market is growing steadily, with most new nodes being used to provide for World Wide Web presence. (references)

These provide for the right to refuse to perform dangerous or unhealthy work without jeopardizing employment. (references)

A plan to implement a "United Public Administration Network" has been launched to provide for full network connectivity and domain interoperability. (references)

Children

Greece

Education is free and compulsory through the ninth grade, but the legislation does not provide for enforcement or penalties. (references)

Slovak Republic

Persons with Disabilities The Constitution and implementing legislation provide for health protection and special working conditions for persons with mental and physical disabilities, including special protection in employment relations and special assistance in training. (references)

Burma

While there are several small-scale organizations to assist persons with disabilities, most must rely on their families to provide for their welfare. (references)

Civil Liberties

Algeria

Broad provisions in the new law provide for prison terms of between 2 and 24 months and fines ranging from $129 (10,000 dinars) to $6,494 (500,000 dinars) for "any person who insults a judge, a civil servant, or one of the representatives of public order with a word, a gesture, a threat, a piece of correspondence, a piece of writing or a drawing while they are exercising their profession, and does so with the intention of offending their honor, their authority, or the respect required of their profession." The law, as amended, provides the same punishments for anyone who "commits insult, contempt or defamation" directed at "Parliament or one of its chambers, tribunals, courts of justice, the People's National Army, or any other authority of public order." No journalist had been charged under the new law by year's end; however, the Government brought defamation cases against journalists during the year under the old provisions of the Penal Code. (references)

Togo

The amendment revised Article 89 to provide for 3- to 6-month jail terms for first offenders, which previously were subject only to 3-month suspended sentences. (references)

Belarus

Both the 1994 and 1996 Constitutions provide for freedom of speech, as well as the freedom to receive, retain, and disseminate information; however, the regime restricts these rights in practice. (references)

Discrimination

Latvia

Amendments to the Constitution passed by Parliament in 1998 provide for the protection from discrimination due to race, sex, religion, language, or disability; however, discrimination against women in the workplace is a problem. (references)

Cyprus

Laws in both communities provide for protection against discrimination based on sex, religion, or national, racial, or ethnic origin. (references)

Yugoslavia

While Federal and Republic-level laws provide for equal rights for all citizens, regardless of ethnic group, religion, language, or social status, and prohibit discrimination against women; however, in practice the legal system provides little protection for such groups. (references)

Economic History

Netherlands

Labor contracts for the year 2001 and 2002 concluded so far provide for an average contract wage rise of 4.1 percent and 4.2 percent respectively, the highest increase since 1992. The average per unit wage costs increase in 2001 and 2002 is forecast to accelerate to a level well in excess of an average four percent wage cost increase in 2000. This is in excess of the predicted average three percent wage costs rise for the Eurozone as a whole. (references)

Netherlands

Already concluded labor contracts for the year 2001 (65 percent of contracts) and 2002 (20 percent of contracts) provide for an average contract wage rise of 3.9 percent and 4.2 percent respectively, the highest increases since 1992. Trying to repeat its successful inflation control strategy of the 1970's, the Central Bank supported by the government has called on trade unions and industry for moderation of wage demands. (references)

Pakistan

Letters of credit should provide for negotiation of documents within a period not exceeding 30 days from the date of shipment. (references)

Human Rights

Bosnia and Herzegovina

The RS judicial hierarchy includes a Supreme Court to provide for the unified enforcement of the law and a Constitutional Court to assure conformity of laws, regulations, and general enactments with the Constitution. (references)

Romania

This law appears to be in conflict with the Constitution, and local and international human rights groups have called on the Government to change it. According to APADOR-CH, the Interior Ministry issued new instructions on detention in 1999 that provide for the confidentiality of discussions between detainees and their lawyers; this law was respected in practice. (references)

Iraq

Procedures in the regular courts in theory provide for many protections; however, the Government often assigns to the security courts cases that, on their legal merits, would appear to fall under the jurisdiction of the regular courts. (references)

Indigenous People

Finland

Sami (Lapps), who constitute less than 0.1 percent of the population, benefit from legal provisions that provide for the protection of minority rights and customs. (references)

Political Economy

ITALY

Most collective agreements provide for a 36 to 38 hour workweek. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

There is no Constitution; a series of "basic laws" provide for fundamental rights. (references)

Political Rights

Somalia

Both of the Puntland and Somaliland administrations provide for universal suffrage. (references)

Qatar

In November 1998, the Amir announced the formation of a committee to draft a permanent constitution that would provide for parliamentary elections. (references)

Belgium

In March the Senate passed a proposed amendment to the Constitution that would provide for the presence of both genders in the federal, regional, provincial, and local governments. (references)

Trade

Ghana

The laws of Ghana provide for the entry of certain goods conditionally relieved from payment of import duties and taxes. (references)

Dominican Rep

Most loan agreements from banks provide for an automatic increase in the interest/commission rate to the prevalent market rate. (references)

Chile

Chile has free-trade agreements with Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Costa Rica that provide for duty-free trade in most products. (references)

Travel

Botswana

The Medicare/Medicaid program does not provide for payment of medical services outside the United States. (references)

Women

Tanzania

While provisions of the law provide for certain inheritance and property rights for women, the application of customary, Islamic, or statutory law depends on the lifestyle and stated intentions of the male head of household. (references)

Malaysia

Some Shari'a experts have urged Muslim women to become more aware of the provisions of Shari'a that prohibit spousal abuse and provide for divorces on grounds of physical cruelty. (references)

Worker Rights

Egypt

The minimum wage does not provide for a decent standard of living for a worker and family; however, base pay commonly is supplemented by a complex system of fringe benefits and bonuses that may double or triple a worker's take-home pay. (references)

Italy

The legal workweek is 40 hours; most collective agreements provide for a 36- to 38-hour workweek. (references)

China

The law also stipulates that parents or guardians should provide for children's subsistence. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

marr masa për, kujdesem për (cater, cater for, do for, Foster, look after, mother, nurse, provide, see about, see to, take care of, tend). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نهض بأعباء, ‏أعال (keep, subsist, support). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разрешавам (allow, authorise, authorize, determine, knit up, let, licence, license, pass, permit, resolve, sanction, suffer), предвиждам (calculate, divine, envisage, forecast, foresee, intend, plan, previse, prevision, provide, second-guess, see beyond). (various references)

Chinese 

贍 (to support). (various references)

Czech

uèinit opatření (take measures, take steps). (various references)

Finnish

pitää huolta jostakin (attend to, look after, look to, shiftshift for oneself, take charge of), huoltaa (service, support, take care of), elättää (maintain, support). (various references)

French

pourvoir (provide), assurer l'avenir de qn (provide), assurer (promise, protect). (various references)

German

versorgen (accommodate, care for, feed, groom, keep, look after, maintain, provide, purvey, serve, settle, settle down, supply, support, take care of, to supply), sorgen für (book, cherish, enforce, lay on, line up, organize, provide, to care for, to look after, to see to, to take care of), sorge tragen für, gewährleisten (ensure, guarantee, warrant), bestreiten (carry, challenge, contest, controvert, defray, deny, dispute, finance, gainsay, impugn, pay for, to argue, to contest, to controvert, to impugn). (various references)

Greek 

προβλέπω (anticipate, contemplate, envisage, forecast, foresee, foretell, predict, prescribe, prognosticate), προμηθεύω (cater, fuel, furnish, procure, provide, purvey, stock, supply). (various references)

Hebrew 

לכלכל (contain, feed, maintain, manage, nourish, sustain), ל�"או�' ל- (care, care about, regard, see, see to). (various references)

Hungarian

intézkedik valamirõl (dispose of), gondoskodik valamirõl (provide, see to). (various references)

Italian

provvedere (arrange, arrange for, cater, fend, get ready, minister, provide, provide oneself, purvey, stock, store, supply, take care), contemplare (admire, contemplate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

備える (to equip, to furnish, to have ready, to install, to provide for). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そなえる (to be armed with, to be endowed with, to be furnished with, to dedicate, to equip, to furnish, to have, to have ready, to install, to offer, to possess, to prepare for, to provide for, to sacrifice), あ�"ぜ�"�'はかる (to provide for safety). (various references)

Pig Latin

ovidepray orfay

Romanian

se îngriji de (attend, care, do for, fend, keep, look after, mind, nurse, see about smth.), asigura (affix, assure, attach, cover, determine, ensure, fasten, find, fix, guarantee, guard, indemnify, insure, make fast, procure, promise, provide, reassure, secure, underwrite), aproviziona (furnish, provide, provision, recruit, stock, store, supply), întreţine (carry, do, entertain, feed, keep, keep in repair, maintain, store, support). (various references)

Russian 

прокормить (keep), принять меры. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pobrinuti se za (attend to), zbrinuti (take care for). (various references)

Spanish

proporcionar lo necesario, mantener (abide, hold, hold up, keep, keep away, keep in, keep on, keep up, maintain, prop, raise, service, support, sustain, tend, wedge), asegurar el porvenir de. (various references)

Swedish

försörja (keep, serve, support). (various references)

Turkish

ihtiyaçlarını karşılamak, gereksinimini sağlamak. (various references)

kal-la. (various references)

dunnunu. (various references)

caveo, cura, curabant, curabantur, curabat, curabimini, curabit, curabo, curabunt, curamini, curandi, curandum, curans, curantes, curare, curarem, curarentur, curaret, curaretur, curari, curas, curasset, curata, curatae, curate, curatus, curaverunt, curavimus, curavit, curem, cures, prospectu, prospectum, prospexit, prospice, prospiciens, prospicientium, prospicit, provide, provideam, provideat, providebam, providebit, providebo, providemus, providendum, providens, providente, providentes, providentia, provideram, providere, providete, providi, providimus, providisti, providit, respectione, respectu, respectus, respexeris, respexero, respexerunt, respexi, respexisset, respexisti, respexistis, respexit, respexitque, respice, respicere, respiceremus, respiceret, respiciam, respiciantque, respicias, respiciat, respiciebant, respiciebat, respiciens, respiciensque, respicient, respiciente, respicientem, respicientes, respicientibus, respicientis, respicies, respiciet, respicio, respicis, respicit, respicite, respicitis, respiciunt, vigila, vigilabant, vigilabo, vigilabunt, vigilandum, vigilans, vigilant, vigilantem, vigilantes, vigilantesque, vigilare, vigilaret, vigilat, vigilate, vigilaverint, vigilaveris, vigilaverit, vigilaverunt, vigilavi, vigilavit, vigilemus, vigiles, vigilo. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: droopier, provider.

-3 letters: proofed, proofer, provide, reproof.

-4 letters: devoir, dopier, dorper, driver, drover, fervid, fervor, foodie, foredo, oroide, overdo, period, poorer, proved, prover, reroof, roofed, roofer, ropier, voider.

-5 letters: direr, diver, doper, drier, drive, droop, drove, fiord, fired, firer, fiver, fordo, fried, frier, frore, oorie, order, ovoid, pedro, poori, poove, pored, pride, pried, prier.