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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Provident \Prov"i*dent\, a. [L. providens, -entis, p. pr. of providere: cf. F. provident. See Provide, and cf. Prudent.] Foreseeing wants and making provision to supply them; prudent in preparing for future exigencies; cautious; economical; -- sometimes followed by of; as, aprovident man; an animal provident of the future.
And of our good and of our dignity,
How provident he is.
--Milton.
Syn: Forecasting; cautious; careful; prudent; frugal; economical.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Latin providentem (nominative providens) "foreseeing, prudent," present participle of providere "to foresee" (see provide).
Wiktionary
a. Possessing, exercising, or demonstrating great care and consideration for the future.
WordNet
adj. providing carefully for the future; "wild squirrels are provident"; "a provident father plans for his children's education" [ant: improvident]
careful in regard to your own interests; "the prudent use and development of resources"; "wild squirrels are provident"
Wikipedia
Provident may refer to:
- Entertainment
- Provident Label Group, a music label
- Finance
- Financial companies
- Unum, formerly UnumProvident, formerly two separate companies Unum & Provident, a financial services company focusing in the United States focusing on disability insurance
- Friends Provident, a financial services company in the U.K. focusing on life assurance
- PNC Financial Services, formerly known as Provident National Bank
- Financial companies
- Provident Financial plc, a financial group based in Bradford, England focusing on the home lending and insurance markets
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Retirement plans
- Central Provident Fund, Singapore's retirement plan
- Public Provident Fund, India's retirement plan
- Mandatory Provident Fund, Hong Kong's retirement plan
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Retirement plans
- Recreation
- Provident Skate Park in Visalia, California
Provident is one of the 37 constituencies in the Eastern District, Hong Kong.
The constituency returns one district councillor to the Eastern District Council, with an election every four years. The seat is currently held by Kwok Wai-keung of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions since the 2007 election.
Provident constituency is loosely based on the areas around Provident Centre and Wharf Road in North Point with estimated population of 20,029.
Usage examples of "provident".
Our Apostleship requires, that the Catholic faith should especially in this Our day increase and flourish everywhere, and that all heretical depravity should be driven far from the frontiers and bournes of the Faithful, We very gladly proclaim and even restate those particular means and methods whereby Our pious desire may obtain its wished effect, since when all errors are uprooted by Our diligent avocation as by the hoe of a provident husbandman, a zeal for, and the regular observance of, Our holy Faith will be all the more strongly impressed upon the hearts of the faithful.
We shall argue that, in the case of mankind, and pre-eminently in the case of woman, this enrichment and development of the individual life is best and most surely attained by parenthood or foster-parenthood, made self-conscious and provident, and magnificently transmuted by its extension and amplification upon the psychical plane in the education of children and, indeed, the care and ennoblement of human life in all its stages.
At Vienna, the empress-queen was not more solicitous in promoting the trade and internal manufactures of her dominions, by sumptuary regulations, necessary restrictions on foreign superfluities, by opening her ports in the Adriatic, and giving proper encouragement to commerce, than she was careful and provident in reforming the economy of her finances, maintaining a respectable body of forces, and guarding, by defensive alliances, against the enterprise of his Prussian majesty, on whose military power she looked with jealousy and distrust.
Under the Provident head, certain small annuities are granted to old and hard-working subscribers.
It contained what looked like a safety-deposit key taped to an index card above the words Illinois State Provident Bank, Grace Street.
Of such provision fortunately there was much laid up in the storerooms for use in the winter, since Lady Carleon had been a good and provident housewife.
The Vanderbilt Mutual Fund and the Provident Fund refuse to invest in liquor or tobacco shares.
I can hardly suppose, Richard, that you expect me to entrust my daughter to a man who is so little provident for himself that he throws away fifty thousand pounds because of some fanciful objection to the name which goes with it.