Allot vs Provide - What's the difference?
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To distribute or apportion by (or as if by) lot
To assign or designate as a task or for a purpose
To make a living; earn money for necessities.
To act to prepare for something.
To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
To furnish (with), cause to be present.
* Arbuthnot
To make possible or attainable.
* Milton
(obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor .
As verbs the difference between allot and provide
is that allot is to distribute or apportion by (or as if by) lot while provide is to make a living; earn money for necessities.allot
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(provid)- It is difficult to provide for my family working on minimum wage.
- The contract provides that the work be well done.
- I'll lend you the money, provided that you pay it back by Monday.
- Don't bother bringing equipment, as we will provide it.
- We aim to provide the local community with more green spaces.
- Rome was well provided with corn.
- He provides us with an alternative option.
- Bring me berries, or such cooling fruit / As the kind, hospitable woods provide .
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