Usually means: Careful management of resources; foresighted.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word provident:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. provident: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. provident: Merriam-Webster
  3. provident: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. provident: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. provident: Collins English Dictionary
  6. provident: Vocabulary.com
  7. Provident, provident: Wordnik
  8. provident: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. provident: Wiktionary
  10. provident: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. provident: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. provident: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Provident, provident: Dictionary.com
  14. provident: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Provident: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Provident: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. provident: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. provident: Rhymezone
  19. Provident: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. provident: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. provident: FreeDictionary.org
  22. provident: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. provident: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Provident (disambiguation), provident: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Possessing, exercising, or demonstrating great care and consideration for the future.
adjective:  Showing care in the use of something (especially money or provisions), so as to avoid wasting it.
adjective:  Providing (for someone’s needs).

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