0 past simple and past participle of provide --
1 to give someone something that they need: --
Putting more police on patrol doesn't provide a real solution to the problem of increasing violence.
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.
The author provides no documentary references to support her assertions.
All meals are provided at no additional cost.
This booklet provides useful information about local services.
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.
To introduce the tasks, the following information was provided on the cover page of the booklets.
The farmers provided various suggestions for possible improvements in the distribution of available irrigation water.
The remaining keynote speakers also provided plenty of food-for-thought, though they tended to remain more tightly focused on the particular rather than the general.
Recent studies have provided strong evidence in support of the above interpretation.
The evaluator will instruct you to find a number of things and place them on this sheet under the numbers provided.
The method then needs to use a new corpus provided by the user and different from the corpus used in the previous step.
Extremists of this view, called 'instrumentalists', believe that all or most knowledge productivity will increase provided the right information systems are implemented.
The timber was necessarily burned where it stood or fell, since this then provided ash for fertilizing the subsequent crop.
