Verb

(provid)

To make a living; earn money for necessities.

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

To act to prepare for something.

To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.

The contract provides that the work be well done.

I'll lend you the money, provided that you pay it back by Monday.

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

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

We aim to provide the local community with more green spaces.

To furnish (with), cause to be present.

* Arbuthnot

Rome was well provided with corn.

To make possible or attainable.

He provides us with an alternative option.

* Milton

Bring me berries, or such cooling fruit / As the kind, hospitable woods provide .

(obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.

(Ben Jonson)

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

(Prescott)

Verb

(conced)

To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question.

He conceded the race once it was clear he could not win.

Kendall conceded defeat once she realized she could not win in a battle of wits.

To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.

To admit to be true; to acknowledge.

To yield or make concession.

(sports) To have a goal or point scored against

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(cricket) (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.