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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
provision
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a clause/provision in the constitution (=a rule or condition in it)
▪ The provision in the European constitution that limited women's roles in the military was found to be discriminatory.
adequate provision
▪ Farmers have been slow to make adequate provision for their retirement.
pension provision (=when you pay money regularly so that you will have a pension later)
▪ They can't afford to make adequate pension provision for themselves.
the terms/provisions of a treaty
▪ Under the terms of the treaty, the two sides agreed to a ceasefire.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
adequate
▪ The most important benefits were adequate job provision, regular pay rises and state welfare services.
▪ But state and local funds, like those of the charities, were simply not adequate for the provision of relief.
▪ All major publicly-funded housing developments will make adequate provision for the less well off.
▪ Peace of mind, adequate provision for family and friends, and the knowledge that one's wishes will be carried out.
▪ Management considers that adequate provision has been made for any liability which may arise in respect of the years 1981 to 1983.
▪ The need for the adequate provision of permanent residential homes increases substantially as the mentally handicapped child grows up.
▪ The Rules do contain adequate provisions for appeal by the person upon whom a notice is served.
▪ There were four builders in the survey whose access to cheaper materials and adequate equipment allowed provision of buildings at reasonable cost.
educational
▪ These statements specify the educational and other provisions that are necessary to meet the pupil's particular needs.
▪ The consequence of all this is that there are considerable social pressures towards increased educational provision.
▪ School closures have seriously affected educational provision.
▪ Many hon. Members have spoken about the pressures on our social services and educational and housing provision.
▪ Compact enhances educational provision in two ways.
▪ Regional differences in educational provision are substantial.
▪ Both therefore see special educational provision as having an essential role to play in bringing about changes in mainstream education.
▪ This creates grounds for closure of the less popular school and thus reduces educational provision in the more deprived area.
public
▪ But while public provision does not preclude charitable giving, the existence of the profit motive in any service usually does.
▪ By simply backing out of public provision, governments turn services over to the private market.
▪ In these days of decline in public provision, these little posters are perhaps the best we can hope for.
▪ On the contrary, as the pool of demand has declined, so rural public transport provision has been decimated.
▪ The issue is presented as a conflict between the relative merits of private and public provision.
▪ At the local level, there has been a considerable range of approaches to public transport provision.
▪ Most people in Britain depend on public provision for health care and education.
▪ Public transport services clearly have direct benefits to those who use them but there are additional benefits of public transport provision.
relevant
▪ In all these cases, the relevant legal provisions required there to be onward transmission of the documents to the defendant.
▪ Using a vehicle in contravention of the relevant statutory provisions constitutes a criminal offence.
▪ The relevant provisions are to be found in Order 62.
social
▪ For me, a key test will be how far the social provisions can be incorporated into the Maastricht agreement.
▪ The hands-off policy was extended to the structure of citizen participation and the social targeting provisions.
▪ The concern here is especially with social service provision, and the place of social work within it.
▪ Since 1985-86 alone, total capital public expenditure on social housing provision has been £18.3 billion.
▪ However, he insists on the pressing need for government to improve social welfare provision.
▪ Meanwhile, tax revenue was sufficiently buoyant to sustain an expansion of social service provision.
▪ Inequalities in social security provision Case A is an industrial injury claimant, first incapacitated under the age of 40.
▪ The need to prepare the economies for unemployment and social security provision for the first time will be the important issues.
special
▪ Each zone typically includes a cluster of two or three secondary schools with their supporting primaries and special educational needs provision.
▪ Arrangements will include a clearing house to help match staff with vacancies and special provisions for retraining.
▪ The Open University runs courses with special provision for people who have impaired hearing.
▪ If so, special provisions will need to be inserted in the agreement to regulate the arrangements between the investors.
▪ The need for a special provision, its likely application, and the interests it would serve were all discussed.
▪ No special tonal provision is made for the exit from scenes such as these.
▪ No special provision was needed in weatherboarded timber-framed barns because the boards did not fit closely together.
specific
▪ The specific provision at Southwark includes a basic education programme located on one particular housing estate.
▪ Held, dismissing the appeal, the judge had not referred to any specific provision of the Code.
▪ The Government attaches great importance to the training of food handlers and the new Food Safety Act contains specific provisions on this.
▪ Various arguments have been put forward to suggest that specific statutory provisions have been entrenched.
▪ The specific provision edged up from £551 million to £563 million.
▪ There are specific legislative provisions which apply to fiscal valuations and which supplement case law.
▪ The Act, as amended, makes specific provision for the making of back-up copies of computer programs.
statutory
▪ Revision of defective accounts Another innovation by the 1989 Act is the introduction of statutory provisions regarding the correction of defective accounts.
▪ Against that general background I now consider the detailed statutory provisions relating to administrative receivers.
▪ All subsequent references to the Act or to statutory provisions are to the Act of 1989 and its provisions unless otherwise stated.
▪ It may however be useful to mention two important federal statutory provisions.
▪ There are, after all, many aspects of the problem of old age that no formal statutory provision can deal with.
■ NOUN
welfare
▪ Underlying this hostility was a profound belief in the ethical and moral superiority of collective welfare provision.
▪ The welfare provisions, meanwhile, require states to put recipients to work and penalize those that fail to do so.
▪ The government believes that the informal, voluntary and commercial sectors should substitute for the state in welfare provision.
▪ However, he insists on the pressing need for government to improve social welfare provision.
▪ Parliament will soon be asked to approve measures to reform education, health, the criminal justice system and welfare provision.
▪ Claimants for social welfare provisions have not always been in a good position so far as procedural protection is concerned.
▪ Wider coverage accounts for well over half of the increase in the proportion of output devoted to welfare provision during the 1960s.
■ VERB
contain
▪ By containing such provisions in a Code, the Secretary of State has power to alter it or withdraw approval.
▪ The Forbes flat-tax proposal, unlike others, contains all those provisions.
▪ The Government attaches great importance to the training of food handlers and the new Food Safety Act contains specific provisions on this.
▪ Legislative acts that levied taxes and defined benefits have never contained any provisions for investing in assets to provide future benefits.
▪ The contract will contain provisions for the parties to co-operate in obtaining necessary consents from third parties.
▪ D., said Senate Democrats would oppose the final measure if it contains the provision on students.
▪ The Act contains detailed provisions of the minimum content of the contract of amalgamation.
▪ Section 902 of the proposed reform Act contained a controversial provision.
include
▪ Service agreements sometimes include a provision entitling the company to dismiss in the event of long-term incapacity.
▪ Senate attempts to include the provision failed three times last fall when supporters were unable to cut off debate.
▪ Her determined campaigning for votes for women in the East End included the provision of welfare support for women and children.
▪ It also includes other provisions to curtail the influence of money in politics.
▪ The picture includes the provision made for amateur and professional, part-time and full-time church musicians.
▪ The bill does not include a provision pushed by Democrats, principally by Rep.
▪ They included provisions designed to prevent head-on collisions, like those at Bellgrove and later at Newton.
▪ His contract will include provisions to protect the Rams financially and legally if he attacks some one off the field again.
make
▪ Indeed, we are the only party to have made the financial provision to ensure that that happens.
▪ The best way to avoid message overloading is to provide separate areas for different programs and to make provisions for graceful failure.
▪ Those with children have to make provision for those children while they are participating in a struggle for their own empowerment.
▪ In future Castle will only make provision for amortisation of audio copyrights for permanent diminution in value.
▪ However it only makes provision for criminal penalties, and not civil remedies.
▪ Clause 94 and schedule 7 make provision for capping.
▪ All major publicly-funded housing developments will make adequate provision for the less well off.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Clinton repeatedly has supported the portability and access provisions.
▪ In countries without adequate welfare provisions for the poor, unemployment may be very much more severe in its effects.
▪ Nevertheless, our weekly bill for provisions alone came to 25 shillings, or half of our total income.
▪ The question of the provision of patent information was investigated.
▪ These statements specify the educational and other provisions that are necessary to meet the pupil's particular needs.
▪ This can be dealt with by revaluing the asset annually using special indices of cost of capital and adjusting depreciation provisions accordingly.
▪ Various arguments have been put forward to suggest that specific statutory provisions have been entrenched.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Provision

Provision \Pro*vi"sion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Provisioned; p. pr. & vb. n. Provisioning.] To supply with food; to victual; as, to provision a garrison.

They were provisioned for a journey.
--Palfrey.

Provision

Provision \Pro*vi"sion\, n. [L. provisio: cf. F. provision. See Provide.]

  1. The act of providing, or making previous preparation.
    --Shak.

  2. That which is provided or prepared; that which is brought together or arranged in advance; measures taken beforehand; preparation.

    Making provision for the relief of strangers.
    --Bacon.

  3. Especially, a stock of food; any kind of eatables collected or stored; -- often in the plural.

    And of provisions laid in large, For man and beast.
    --Milton.

  4. That which is stipulated in advance; a condition; a previous agreement; a proviso; as, the provisions of a contract; the statute has many provisions.

  5. (R. C. Ch.) A canonical term for regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation.

  6. (Eng. Hist.) A nomination by the pope to a benefice before it became vacant, depriving the patron of his right of presentation.
    --Blackstone.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
provision

late 14c., "a providing beforehand, action of arranging in advance" (originally in reference to ecclesiastical appointments made before the position was vacant), from Old French provision "precaution, care" (early 14c.), from Latin provisionem (nominative provisio) "a foreseeing, foresight, preparation, prevention," noun of action from past participle stem of providere "look ahead" (see provide). Meaning "something provided" is attested from late 15c.; specific sense of "supply of food" is from c.1600.

provision

"to supply with provisions," 1787, from provision (n.). Related: Provisioned; provisioning.

Wiktionary
provision

n. 1 An item of goods or supplies, especially food, obtained for future use. 2 The act of providing, or making previous preparation. 3 Money set aside for a future event. 4 (context accounting English) A liability or contra account to recognise likely future adverse events associated with current transactions. 5 (context legal English) A clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso. 6 (context Roman Catholic English) Regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation. 7 (context UK historical English) A nomination by the pope to a benefice before it became vacant, depriving the patron of his right of presentation. vb. To supply with provisions.

WordNet
provision

  1. n. a stipulated condition; "he accepted subject to one provision" [syn: proviso]

  2. the activity of supplying or providing something [syn: supply, supplying]

  3. the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening; "his planning for retirement was hindered by several uncertainties" [syn: planning, preparation]

  4. a store or supply of something (especially of food or clothing or arms)

provision

v. supply with provisions [syn: purvey]

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Wikipedia
Provision (musical group)

Provision is an electronic music group from Houston, Texas. Provision was founded in November 2000 by Breye 7x (formerly of U-N-I and Bamboo Crisis) and Leslie Hyman (formerly of U-N-I and Wraith).

Provision

Provision may refer to:

  • Provision (musical group), a Futurepop / Darkpop band from Houston, Texas
  • Provision (accounting), a term for liability in accounting
  • Provision (contracting), a term for a procurement condition
  • ProVision (security equipment), manufacturing L-3 Communications
  • Provision (album), an album by Scritti Politti
  • Provision (English word), an item of goods or supplies, especially food, obtained for future use.

See also:

  • Provisioning (disambiguation)
Provision (accounting)

In financial accounting, a provision is an account which records a present liability of an entity. The recording of the liability in the entity's balance sheet is matched to an appropriate expense account in the entity's income statement.

Sometimes in IFRS, but not in GAAP, the term reserve is used instead of provision. Such a use is, however, inconsistent with the terminology suggested by International Accounting Standards Board. The term "reserve" can be a confusing accounting term. In accounting, a reserve is always an account with a credit balance in the entity's Equity on the Balance Sheet, while to non-professionals it has the connotation of a pool of cash set aside to meet a future liability (a debit balance).

Provision (contracting)

In United States government contracting, a provision or solicitation provision is a written term or condition used in a solicitation. A provision applies only before a contract is awarded to a vendor. This distinguishes provisions from clauses, which apply after contracts are awarded (and possibly before). Of means by which referring to the absolute security of one provision that it may be acceptable for one's job to be discriminated against the court; providing the right evidence is given.

Provision (album)

Provision is the third album by the British group Scritti Politti, released in June 1988.

The album was the band's second top ten hit in the UK, reaching #8, and was certified Gold by the BPI for 100,000 copies shipped.

The track "Oh Patti (Don't Feel Sorry for Loverboy)" features Miles Davis on trumpet, whose 1986 album Tutu included a cover of Scritti Politti's "Perfect Way" from Cupid & Psyche 85. The track "Boom! There She Was" features Roger Troutman on talk box vocals. The track "Best Thing Ever" was previously released on the soundtrack of the 1987 film Who's That Girl. In an interview with David Gamson, "Provision took an incredibly long time to make. The initial drum tracks were all recorded with the Synclavier and at that point the Synclav's sequencer was extremely primitive. Lots of inputing kick and snare hits via SMPTE numbers rather than beats and bars. Ultimately, I think we kinda lost the forest for the trees on that album."

Usage examples of "provision".

Sir Robert Peel opposed the motion, and moved a series of resolutions, declaring it advisable to make such provision as should enable the crown to continue all such pensions as had existed at the accession of the late king, or had been granted by him during his reign.

Suffolk and Norfolk, alleging that the bill, if passed into a law, would render it impossible to bring fresh provisions from those counties to London, as the supply depended absolutely upon the quickness of conveyance, the further consideration of it was postponed to a longer day, and never resumed in the sequel: so that the attempt miscarried.

The Isle of Thanet, a secure and fertile district, was allotted for the residence of these German auxiliaries, and they were supplied, according to the treaty, with a plentiful allowance of clothing and provisions.

International Law exempting unarmed fishing vessels from capture was applicable in the absence of any treaty provision, or other public act of the Government in relation to the subject.

Sir Robert Peel gave notice on the 7th of July, that, on the motion for committing the bill, he would move an instruction to the committee to divide it into two bills, that he might have an opportunity of rejecting altogether those parts of the bill which suppressed the Protestant churches of eight hundred and sixty parishes, appropriating their revenues to purposes not immediately in connection with the interests of the established church, and of supporting those provisions in which he could concur.

But Congress may impair the obligation of a contract and may extend the provisions of the bankruptcy laws to contracts already entered into at the time of their passage.

Three years earlier the Court, speaking also by Justice Bradley, sustained a provision of the Bankruptcy Act of 1867 giving assignees a right to sue in State courts to recover the assets of a bankrupt.

Although, as a general case, a ship unlucky in falling in with whales continues to cruise after them until she has barely sufficient provisions remaining to take her home, turning round then quietly and making the best of her way to her friends, yet there are instances when even this natural obstacle to the further prosecution of the voyage is overcome by headstrong captains, who, bartering the fruits of their hard-earned toils for a new supply of provisions in some of the ports of Chili or Peru, begin the voyage afresh with unabated zeal and perseverance.

Hamburg--A bridge two leagues long--Executions at Lubeck--Scarcity of provisions in Hamburg--Banishment of the inhabitants--Men bastinadoed and women whipped--Hospitality of the inhabitants of Altona.

Soon Federal artillery batteries would be crossing over to this side, and so would wagons with important ammunition and provisions, and ambulances to carry back the wounded.

A seasonable relief was poured into Durazzo, and as soon as the besiegers had lost the command of the sea, the islands and maritime towns withdrew from the camp the supply of tribute and provision.

Boers were shouting to their servants, horses were being examined, women were packing the saddle-bags of their husbands and fathers with spare clothes, the pack-beasts were being laden with biltong and other provisions, and so forth.

I have made no provision for my son Guy in this will is not due to any lack of love or affection on my part, but simply because I have provided for him during my lifetime and feel that those provisions are more than adequate blah, blah, blah.

As night drew in on the increasingly brawly festivities, I left the flock, collected my bag of provisions, ran for the shelter of the nearest wood, and disappeared into the all-concealing shadows.

Provisions ran low upon the third day of our stay in Bridgewater, which was due to our having exhausted that part of the country before, and also to the vigilance of the Royal Horse, who scoured the district round and cut off our supplies.