0 past simple and past participle of provide
1 to give someone something that they need:
This booklet provides useful information about local services.
All meals are provided at no additional cost.
The author provides no documentary references to support her assertions.
We have concerns about whether the government will be able to provide viable social services for poorer families/provide poorer families with viable social services.
Putting more police on patrol doesn't provide a real solution to the problem of increasing violence.
2 (of a law or decision) to say that something must happen if particular conditions exist:
Section 17 provides that all decisions must be circulated in writing.
Do you think the state should provide free nursery education?
They opened a shelter to provide temporary housing for the city's homeless.
He was able to provide the police with some valuable information.
Few shading experiments have provided the absolute measures of both incident radiation and crop structure necessary to develop a predictive approach.
All the children were recruited from birth lists provided by a government information centre.
Although recruits were informed of the purpose of the interview, they were not provided with a copy of the interview schedule in advance.
