Usually means: Supply of goods or services.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word provision:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. provision: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. provision: Merriam-Webster
  3. provision: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. provision: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. provision: Collins English Dictionary
  6. provision: Vocabulary.com
  7. Provision, provision: Wordnik
  8. provision: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. provision: Wiktionary
  10. provision: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. provision: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. provision: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. provision: Dictionary.com
  14. provision (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. provision: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Provision (accounting), Provision (album), Provision (contracting), Provision: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Provision: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. provision: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. provision: Rhymezone
  20. provision, provision (f), provisin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. provision: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. provision: FreeDictionary.org
  23. provision: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. provision: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. provision: Mnemonic Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. provision: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. PROVISION: Accounting Glossary
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Provision: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  6. provision: Legal dictionary
  7. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  10. Provision: Investopedia

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. provision: Encyclopedia

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Provision: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See provisioned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An item of goods or supplies, especially food, obtained for future use.
noun:  The act of providing, or making previous preparation.
noun:  Money set aside for a future event.
noun:  (accounting) A liability or contra account to recognise likely future adverse events associated with current transactions.
noun:  (law) A clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
noun:  (Roman Catholicism) Regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation.
noun:  (British, historical) A nomination by the pope to a benefice before it became vacant, depriving the patron of his right of presentation.
verb:  (transitive) To supply with provisions.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To supply (a user) with an account, resources, etc. so that they can use a system; to install the necessary software on a bare-bones system so it can be used for a specific purpose.

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