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Provide vs Beholden - What's the difference?

provide | beholden |

As a verb provide

is to make a living; earn money for necessities.

As a adjective beholden is

obligated to provide, display, or do something for another; bound by moral obligation; indebted; obliged.

provide

English

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)

    Derived terms

    * provider

    Related terms

    * provision

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    beholden

    English

    Alternative forms

    *beholding

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Obligated to provide, display, or do something for another; bound by moral obligation; indebted; obliged.
    • From an early age, I had decided I wanted to be beholden to no one.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012
    • , date=June 26 , author=Genevieve Koski , title=Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM accouterments, seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up on techno blasts and garish dubstep drops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).}} English adjectives ending in -en