PROVISIONS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does provisions mean? 

• PROVISIONS (noun)
  The noun PROVISIONS has 1 sense:

1. a stock or supply of foods

  Familiarity information: PROVISIONS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROVISIONS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stock or supply of foods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

commissariat; provender; provisions; viands; victuals

Hypernyms ("provisions" is a kind of...):

food; nutrient (any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "provisions"):

food cache (food in a secure or hidden storage place)

larder (a supply of food especially for a household)

 Context examples 

I ate no other supper, being resolved to spare my provisions as much as I could.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

For thirty years, he said, I've sailed the seas and seen good and bad, better and worse, fair weather and foul, provisions running out, knives going, and what not.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The slop-chest, as well as the provisions, was stored in the lazarette, and I took advantage of the opportunity to lay in a stock of underclothing.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The facility which provides a setting with provisions for monitoring and delivering babies.

(Birth Facility, NCI Thesaurus)

I exchanged my land-sledge for one fashioned for the inequalities of the Frozen Ocean, and purchasing a plentiful stock of provisions, I departed from land.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The Panel is governed by the provisions of Public Law 92-463, as amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2).

(NCI Special Emphasis Panel, NCI Thesaurus)

HIPAA has separate provisions for the large and small group markets, and the individual market.

(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, NCI Thesaurus)

Evaluating the safety provisions in a device used for medical imaging, i.e., if the device can cause injury to individuals during imaging process (visualizing the structure and function of the body).

(Device Radiologic Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

In the matter of provisions we had enough to last for several weeks, with a sufficiency of tobacco and a few scientific implements, including a large telescope and a good field-glass.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He brought in our furs, and made a snug nest for me, and got out some provisions and forced them upon me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)