Verb

(head)

(provide)

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

(head)

(ensure)

Verb

(ensur)

To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.

*:

*:Thenne he cryed hym mercy and sayd Faire knyght for goddes loue slee me not / and I shall ensure the neuer werre ageynst thy lady / but be alwey toward her / Thenne Bors lete hym be

To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).

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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington

, title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}