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Definition of provision in English: provisionnoun prəˈvɪʒ(ə)nprəˈvɪʒən mass noun1The action of providing or supplying something for use. 供应，提供 new contracts for the provision of services 提供服务的新合同。 Example sentencesExamples - To improve their return on investment, they would include a number of value-added products, which could include provision of security services, cleaning and even broadband access.
- He pledged to continue negotiations with the Health Service Executive on the issue of extending the centre and provision of special sheltered housing.
- REPORTS OF protests regarding service delivery and the provision of much-needed housing have resounded across the nation in the last two weeks.
- The Iraqi government must be free to set their own tax rates and decide over the nature of contracts and provision of services within Iraq.
- Chiluba said although the backbench was cardinal to ensure delivery of services and provision of checks and balances to the executive, they should bear in mind that they could not exist in isolation.
- Services include provision of information on cancer, counselling and reflexology and massage therapies.
- The Government's provision of a limited amount of more money is welcome.
- Direct services include referrals, provision of information, mental health counselling, advocacy work and financial assistance.
- The brief includes affordable and disabled-friendly housing, parking provision and a commitment to retaining historic buildings.
- The contract will include provision of hardware, software, infrastructure and service level agreements for the next three to five years.
- A Gravesham Council spokesman said it is investigating low-cost security systems for taxis and holds regular meetings to highlight issues and provision of taxi services.
- However, the telcoms regulator stopped short of extending the USO to include the mandatory provision of broadband and mobile services.
- The provision of 8,000 social and affordable houses per annum would go a long way in addressing the ever increasing Local Authority housing waiting lists.
- Even in overcrowded tenements and illegal settlements, the densities are rarely too high to pose problems for the cost effective provision of infrastructure and services.
- Allbaugh said he was helping private companies, including his clients, cut through federal red tape to speed provision of services and supplies to the storm-wracked region.
- He had discovered it on the internet and he said that it seemed to shed considerable light on the issue of provision of services at local hospitals.
- He added the key objective of the service is the effective provision of the out-of-hours for urgent cases, which will be prioritised.
- The report's findings suggest that measures beyond the mere provision of housing are required to address the needs of family groups facing a housing crisis.
- The CEO went on to detail interim measures which include the provision of ten extra beds at Carlow District Hospital.
- The provision of housing for the poor and needy is the responsibility of the NHA or whichever new body has taken over from it and I would have preferred to see help for Lynch come from this quarter.
Synonyms supplying, supply, providing, purveying, delivery, furnishing, equipping, giving, donation, allocation, distribution, presentation - 1.1provision for/against Financial or other arrangements for future eventualities or requirements.
（金钱或其他方面的）预备，准备；预先采取的措施 farmers have been slow to make provision for their retirement 农民对退休生活准备一向较迟缓。 Example sentencesExamples - Meanwhile, financial advisers should be urging clients to make provision for long term care now ahead of an anticipated explosion in demand for nursing home places, Capaldi said.
- The Victorian statute and the Tasmanian statute are the only ones that make provision for financial loss.
- When will international companies make provision for those employed now to have a future when the mine closes down in 10 years' time?
- We are electrifying the system as we go to make provision for future developments, Mr Lalor said.
- But it is the duty of government to make provision for the future and to keep its citizens equipped to compete in a globalised market.
- But Standard Life fears that any more confusion in the market place will have an adverse affect on savers, causing more people to spurn making proper financial provision for their future.
- He said the initial simple idea of a bridge had been further complicated and made more expensive by the requirements to make provision for cyclists, horse riders and disabled people.
- Some discussed their desire to ‘plan’ and make provision for their death.
- To make provision for such an eventuality the replay is going to have to have a very early start, possibly as early as 12.30.
- But a new site for the spacious museum will have to be found as the development plans do not make provision for it as it currently stands.
Synonyms preparations, plans, planning, prearrangement, arrangements, precautions, precautionary steps/measures, contingency - 1.2count noun An amount set aside out of profits in the accounts of an organization for a known liability, especially a bad debt or the diminution in value of an asset.
（机构账户上为已知负债，尤指坏账或资产价值缩减，从利润中留出的）准备金 Example sentencesExamples - The biggest risk to this is a sudden and unexpected rise in bad debts and provisions for anticipated future bad debts.
- He also warned against taking the company's bad debt provisions at face value.
- In a good year, a firm will set aside a large amount of provisions so that profits don't increase too much - and reach a level that it may struggle to match the following year.
- However, in lean years, when interest rates are high, their profits can quickly collapse as provisions for bad debts hurt their bottom lines.
- It is not surprising, given the number of high profile bankruptcies, that investors are noticeably worried about bad debt provisions.
2An amount or thing supplied or provided. 供应量，供给物 changing levels of transport provision 不断变化的交通供给水平。 Example sentencesExamples - Community services and specialist education provision could be delivered much more efficiently if planning was informed by accurate and ongoing data about the health status of the target population.
- It was, as usual, a virtuoso performance, showing not only the Chancellor's command of economics and finance but also his rock-solid commitment to social justice and public provision.
- For example, we have high social provision, particularly in health and welfare, which is funded by taxation, unlike the USA's private medical system.
- Consistent with this principle, we should avoid payroll taxes and employer mandates in favor of social provision based on general revenues.
- As well as the issue of maternity service provision, members at the AGM voiced real concerns over the status of the planned new hospital in Downpatrick.
- The official response is that the fund is also designed to ensure the level of social welfare provision for all Irish citizens in the longer term.
- Very often contracting out public service provision works badly if it works at all.
- The topics covered in the report, which compares its main findings with those from previous surveys, include service provision, policing priorities and fear of crime.
- North Yorkshire County Council is already more generous on transport provision than most authorities - spending about £1m a year.
- In the shadow of the Great Depression and chastened by the horror of war, Western societies sought to redefine social provision and the notion of public good.
- Even now social provision remains at a considerably higher level than in most of the rest of Europe.
- It places income redistribution at the heart of service provision and delivery, and taxes citizens according to ability to pay.
- In Bristol today the schools are crumbling, bus services are inadequate, public housing provision declines, and no one flies on Concorde.
- Subscription systems of financing formed the basis of pharmacy service provision through friendly society dispensaries across the country.
- We need drastic improvements in all modes of transport without setting one against another, and a recognition that inadequacies in public transport provision are not the fault of individual car users.
- Housing advice provision is presently uncoordinated leading to disparities within the district.
- The scheme is also fully supported by the Wigan and Bolton Health Authority, with whom the hospice has a contract for service provision.
- Cori said the budget should give priority to tackling the rich/poor gap as well as providing major investment for infrastructure and social provision.
- Individual savings cannot substitute for social provision, and should not be seen as a way of absolving the state of its ultimate responsibility to provide security for all.
- The Scandinavians have tended to favour high rates of taxation with correspondingly high levels of social provision.
Synonyms facilities, services, amenities, resource(s), equipment, arrangements, solutions means, offering, funds, benefits, assistance, allowance(s), concession(s), opportunities - 2.1provisions Supplies of food, drink, or equipment, especially for a journey.
（尤指为旅行准备的）必需品（如食品、饮料、设备） Example sentencesExamples - No provisions were made for food or much comfort for the journey.
- With the ransom amounts obtained from his kidnapping ventures, he sourced his supplies of food and other provisions from villages on the fringe of the forest.
- Trailer loads of supplies and provisions poured in from the rest of the country, offering food, water, anything that might be of use.
- It is, therefore, by no means surprising that it does not supply the inhabitants with provisions… The situation of the people in 1783 was deplorable.
- Enough supplies were stored to last 4,000 soldiers and 300 knights with their horses, equipment and provisions for up to a five-year siege.
- The pair then went across the street to buy food provisions and returned shortly afterwards to find smoke billowing from the caravan.
- It sources its own provisions and all food is freshly cooked.
- His ultimate ambition is to set up a chandler's shop, selling supplies for boats including provisions and provide pump-out facilities for canal boat toilets.
- They distribute food, clothing, provisions and other essential items for orphanages and destitute homes and uniform, books and notebooks for poor children.
- Those who came with their carts looked prepared to camp the entire 10 days of the fair if needed and brought enough hay for their cattle and provisions to cook food.
- Please be aware that you bring all your food and drinks, provisions will not be made.
- Similar to Alexander, Napoleon's staff sent dispatches to cities along the proposed routes to secure provisions and supply the army along the way.
- Thus, women refugees are denied independent access to necessary provisions including food, shelter, and medical supplies and services.
- There's just enough time to buy provisions for the journey before the long dormant sleeper train pulls up.
- After unpacking a few things we drove into the village which was just under a mile away and bought some provisions including bacon and sausages from the famous butchers there.
- This shop dealt in provisions and supplies for ships.
- In recent years China has supported the tottering North Korean regime, providing food provisions, oil, strategic supplies and economic aid.
- Diego's limited supply of food was gone, leaving Royce's provisions as their only food source.
- I know we have had experiences of Muslim officers at training school not being able to eat during the day, because they did not have the correct food provisions; that has been addressed.
- Bring supplies and provisions to last for the journey North.
Synonyms supplies, food and drink, food, stores, stocks, groceries, foodstuff(s), rations, iron rations, eatables, edibles, fare, daily bread, staples Scottish vivers informal grub, bread, eats, chow, nosh, scoff North American informal chuck archaic victuals, vittles, viands, commons, meat rare sustenance, provender, comestibles, aliment, viaticum, commissariat
3count noun A condition or requirement in a legal document. 条文，条款；规定 the first private prosecution under the provisions of the 1989 Water Act 依据1989年水利法条款的首例私人诉讼案。 Example sentencesExamples - But you cannot be a registered holder unless you are registered under the provisions of this deed as the holder of a unit.
- The Bill also proposes to strengthen provisions relating to the supply of liquor to minors and to strengthen liquor advertising law.
- Prior to the 8th January the facts in the public domain included that the boys were held under the provisions of section 53 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933.
- Additionally, it made clear the judge had submitted a tax clearance certificate and a declaration, as required under the provisions of the Standards in Public Office Act.
- Just what that guarantee might be Airshow hasn't said, but it would likely include equipment buy-back provisions should Globalstar ever go off the air.
- Under the provisions of rule 49.10, the successful parties would ordinarily be entitled to substantial indemnity costs.
- There were 14 jurors empanelled, one of whom was discharged under the provisions of the Juries Act before the trial commenced.
- There was a hue and cry over her statement as the defence counsels brought to the notice of the judge that her rhetorics would invite legal actions under the provisions of the special Act.
- Under the provisions of the Family Law Act, section 36, he had no jurisdiction to make an occupation order.
- If you want me to proceed to trial in respect of Mrs. C then under the provisions of the Law Society guidelines I am required to notify you of my terms of business.
- There is no basis under the provisions of the Immigration Rules for him to be admitted here.
- If anything herein contained to be invalid or unenforceable under the provisions of said act such circumstances shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other part or term of this Bill of Lading.
- Alstom submits that its obligation to proceed under the provisions of clause 2 was subject to two contingent conditions precedent neither of which were satisfied.
- Veterans denied a pension and incapable of supporting themselves might seek charity under the provisions of the Poor Laws.
- At the end, it would be possible for Mr Young to apply for a further term under the provisions of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954.
- Mr Walsh said extending the labelling provisions to cover food service can be done without adding costs to the sector.
- The Minister is the person who is liable to sue and be sued under the provisions of that statute.
- He was told that he was not allowed to go there or to be there under the provisions of his parole conditions, but nothing was done.
- Dr. Klassen is required to disclose his report under the provisions of the rules.
- He thereby became a reservist and for six years liable to recall as such under the provisions of the Reserve Forces Act 1996.
Synonyms term, clause, requirement, specification, stipulation proviso, condition, rider, qualification, restriction, reservation, caveat, limitation 4Christian Church
historical count noun An appointment to a benefice, especially directly by the Pope rather than by the patron, and originally before it became vacant. 〔基督教〕〈史〉神职委任（尤指教皇对尚未缺额神职的预先委任） Example sentencesExamples - Even more insidious was the practice of papal provision, whereby the pope appointed his nominees, a number of them Italian, to clerical positions, particularly to prebends in cathedrals.
- Let us take another medieval example, the case of papal provisions in medieval England.
verb prəˈvɪʒ(ə)nprəˈvɪʒən 1with object Supply with food, drink, or equipment, especially for a journey. （尤指为旅行准备的）必需品（如食品、饮料、设备） civilian contractors were responsible for provisioning these armies the provisioning of US ships Example sentencesExamples - It had left Chatham on the 28 th March having been partially provisioned for the long journey to Australia.
- We found that females were more involved in direct care for the larvae and spent more time than did males provisioning the larvae with food.
- They were normally kept fuelled and provisioned by supply ships, though Japanese island bases were used to refit and refuel some of them while Japan was still officially neutral.
- One group was given a food supplement, while the other group was deprived of part of the food provisioned by their parents.
- The boat can be fully provisioned with food, if you request, so that all you need do is fly in, step on board and sail away.
- The remaining men are now very well provisioned, and for once there is a surplus of most supplies.
- The company will ship anything, whatever the quantity, to provision a yacht worldwide.
- And the King had all the army dispersed all over the country among his vassals, and they provisioned the army each in proportion to his land.
- Now they took responsibility for provisioning the cities with food and maintaining the city walls to protect the population from the increasingly frequent barbarian raids.
- First we had to provision ourselves with the proper travel food.
- The Commissariat was the primary means by which the British army was provisioned both in Ireland and wherever else it operated.
- Samori provisioned his armies and administration by trading cattle and slaves for European arms.
- Conrad's army did not provision itself well and was quickly short on water.
- The male partner will provision his mate with food but does not go into the maternity den.
- His brother Joseph, who already provisioned the French army through Francois Poisson, financed the Military Academy which the marquise founded, in exchange for the right to administer a lottery and levy a tax on playing cards.
- Lipton's grocery business provisioned the Volunteer camps, which had become the Territorial Army.
- During their fieldwork with the monkeys there, investigators provisioned them with sweet potatoes, which a juvenile female named Imo soon began washing; she would bring her potatoes to a small river and clean them off before eating them.
- Incubating female robins received 40% less food from males, females left their nests more frequently to forage on their own, and nestlings were provisioned with less food in the small fragments.
- Within each seed is an amorphous embryo made up of just a few cells; unlike the embryos of most seed plants, the orchid embryo is not provisioned with a food source.
- His commercial activities are little evidenced, although he sold the borough 40s. worth of fish in 1358/59 to provision a community ship.
Synonyms supply, provide, furnish, arm, equip, fit out, rig out, kit out, accoutre, outfit, fit up 2no object Set aside an amount in an organization's accounts for a known liability. （为已知债务）留出准备金 financial institutions have to provision against loan losses 金融机构必须为贷款损失提供准备金。 Example sentencesExamples - Although banks have adequately provisioned for bad assets and written off some of their bad assets, new NPLs have emerged.
- The goal of the audits, to extend into next year, is to flush out the bad loans, get them properly classified and provisioned, then start to crack down on chronic deadbeats.
- Failure to provision for projects to be undertaken tomorrow can deeply compromise those future projects.
- Financial and banking systems, once cleaned up and properly provisioned and mutually supervised, will start to mesh throughout a wider European monetary region, so that even country risk will drop sharply.
OriginLate Middle English (also in the sense 'foresight'): via Old French from Latin provisio(n-), from providere 'foresee, attend to' (see provide). The verb dates from the early 19th century. Rhymescircumcision, collision, concision, decision, derision, division, elision, envision, excision, imprecision, incision, misprision, precisian, precision, scission, vision Definition of provision in US English: provisionnounprəˈviZHənprəˈvɪʒən 1The action of providing or supplying something for use. 供应，提供 new contracts for the provision of services 提供服务的新合同。 Example sentencesExamples - The report's findings suggest that measures beyond the mere provision of housing are required to address the needs of family groups facing a housing crisis.
- Direct services include referrals, provision of information, mental health counselling, advocacy work and financial assistance.
- The contract will include provision of hardware, software, infrastructure and service level agreements for the next three to five years.
- However, the telcoms regulator stopped short of extending the USO to include the mandatory provision of broadband and mobile services.
- The brief includes affordable and disabled-friendly housing, parking provision and a commitment to retaining historic buildings.
- Allbaugh said he was helping private companies, including his clients, cut through federal red tape to speed provision of services and supplies to the storm-wracked region.
- REPORTS OF protests regarding service delivery and the provision of much-needed housing have resounded across the nation in the last two weeks.
- He added the key objective of the service is the effective provision of the out-of-hours for urgent cases, which will be prioritised.
- A Gravesham Council spokesman said it is investigating low-cost security systems for taxis and holds regular meetings to highlight issues and provision of taxi services.
- The Government's provision of a limited amount of more money is welcome.
- The provision of 8,000 social and affordable houses per annum would go a long way in addressing the ever increasing Local Authority housing waiting lists.
- He had discovered it on the internet and he said that it seemed to shed considerable light on the issue of provision of services at local hospitals.
- Services include provision of information on cancer, counselling and reflexology and massage therapies.
- To improve their return on investment, they would include a number of value-added products, which could include provision of security services, cleaning and even broadband access.
- The Iraqi government must be free to set their own tax rates and decide over the nature of contracts and provision of services within Iraq.
- The CEO went on to detail interim measures which include the provision of ten extra beds at Carlow District Hospital.
- Even in overcrowded tenements and illegal settlements, the densities are rarely too high to pose problems for the cost effective provision of infrastructure and services.
- Chiluba said although the backbench was cardinal to ensure delivery of services and provision of checks and balances to the executive, they should bear in mind that they could not exist in isolation.
- He pledged to continue negotiations with the Health Service Executive on the issue of extending the centre and provision of special sheltered housing.
- The provision of housing for the poor and needy is the responsibility of the NHA or whichever new body has taken over from it and I would have preferred to see help for Lynch come from this quarter.
Synonyms supplying, supply, providing, purveying, delivery, furnishing, equipping, giving, donation, allocation, distribution, presentation - 1.1provision for/against Financial or other arrangements for future eventualities or requirements.
（金钱或其他方面的）预备，准备；预先采取的措施 farmers have been slow to make provision for their retirement 农民对退休生活准备一向较迟缓。 Example sentencesExamples - Meanwhile, financial advisers should be urging clients to make provision for long term care now ahead of an anticipated explosion in demand for nursing home places, Capaldi said.
- The Victorian statute and the Tasmanian statute are the only ones that make provision for financial loss.
- To make provision for such an eventuality the replay is going to have to have a very early start, possibly as early as 12.30.
- He said the initial simple idea of a bridge had been further complicated and made more expensive by the requirements to make provision for cyclists, horse riders and disabled people.
- When will international companies make provision for those employed now to have a future when the mine closes down in 10 years' time?
- But a new site for the spacious museum will have to be found as the development plans do not make provision for it as it currently stands.
- We are electrifying the system as we go to make provision for future developments, Mr Lalor said.
- Some discussed their desire to ‘plan’ and make provision for their death.
- But it is the duty of government to make provision for the future and to keep its citizens equipped to compete in a globalised market.
- But Standard Life fears that any more confusion in the market place will have an adverse affect on savers, causing more people to spurn making proper financial provision for their future.
Synonyms preparations, plans, planning, prearrangement, arrangements, precautions, precautionary measures, precautionary steps, contingency - 1.2 An amount set aside out of profits in the accounts of an organization for a known liability, especially a bad debt or the diminution in value of an asset.
（机构账户上为已知负债，尤指坏账或资产价值缩减，从利润中留出的）准备金 Example sentencesExamples - In a good year, a firm will set aside a large amount of provisions so that profits don't increase too much - and reach a level that it may struggle to match the following year.
- It is not surprising, given the number of high profile bankruptcies, that investors are noticeably worried about bad debt provisions.
- However, in lean years, when interest rates are high, their profits can quickly collapse as provisions for bad debts hurt their bottom lines.
- The biggest risk to this is a sudden and unexpected rise in bad debts and provisions for anticipated future bad debts.
- He also warned against taking the company's bad debt provisions at face value.
2An amount or thing supplied or provided. 供应量，供给物 low levels of social provision Example sentencesExamples - Cori said the budget should give priority to tackling the rich/poor gap as well as providing major investment for infrastructure and social provision.
- Very often contracting out public service provision works badly if it works at all.
- North Yorkshire County Council is already more generous on transport provision than most authorities - spending about £1m a year.
- The topics covered in the report, which compares its main findings with those from previous surveys, include service provision, policing priorities and fear of crime.
- As well as the issue of maternity service provision, members at the AGM voiced real concerns over the status of the planned new hospital in Downpatrick.
- We need drastic improvements in all modes of transport without setting one against another, and a recognition that inadequacies in public transport provision are not the fault of individual car users.
- Housing advice provision is presently uncoordinated leading to disparities within the district.
- The Scandinavians have tended to favour high rates of taxation with correspondingly high levels of social provision.
- The scheme is also fully supported by the Wigan and Bolton Health Authority, with whom the hospice has a contract for service provision.
- In Bristol today the schools are crumbling, bus services are inadequate, public housing provision declines, and no one flies on Concorde.
- The official response is that the fund is also designed to ensure the level of social welfare provision for all Irish citizens in the longer term.
- In the shadow of the Great Depression and chastened by the horror of war, Western societies sought to redefine social provision and the notion of public good.
- Consistent with this principle, we should avoid payroll taxes and employer mandates in favor of social provision based on general revenues.
- For example, we have high social provision, particularly in health and welfare, which is funded by taxation, unlike the USA's private medical system.
- It was, as usual, a virtuoso performance, showing not only the Chancellor's command of economics and finance but also his rock-solid commitment to social justice and public provision.
- Individual savings cannot substitute for social provision, and should not be seen as a way of absolving the state of its ultimate responsibility to provide security for all.
- Even now social provision remains at a considerably higher level than in most of the rest of Europe.
- Community services and specialist education provision could be delivered much more efficiently if planning was informed by accurate and ongoing data about the health status of the target population.
- Subscription systems of financing formed the basis of pharmacy service provision through friendly society dispensaries across the country.
- It places income redistribution at the heart of service provision and delivery, and taxes citizens according to ability to pay.
Synonyms facilities, services, amenities, resource, resources, equipment, arrangements, solutions - 2.1provisions Supplies of food, drink, or equipment, especially for a journey.
（尤指为旅行准备的）必需品（如食品、饮料、设备） Example sentencesExamples - It sources its own provisions and all food is freshly cooked.
- They distribute food, clothing, provisions and other essential items for orphanages and destitute homes and uniform, books and notebooks for poor children.
- Similar to Alexander, Napoleon's staff sent dispatches to cities along the proposed routes to secure provisions and supply the army along the way.
- Bring supplies and provisions to last for the journey North.
- Enough supplies were stored to last 4,000 soldiers and 300 knights with their horses, equipment and provisions for up to a five-year siege.
- Please be aware that you bring all your food and drinks, provisions will not be made.
- Those who came with their carts looked prepared to camp the entire 10 days of the fair if needed and brought enough hay for their cattle and provisions to cook food.
- It is, therefore, by no means surprising that it does not supply the inhabitants with provisions… The situation of the people in 1783 was deplorable.
- In recent years China has supported the tottering North Korean regime, providing food provisions, oil, strategic supplies and economic aid.
- No provisions were made for food or much comfort for the journey.
- With the ransom amounts obtained from his kidnapping ventures, he sourced his supplies of food and other provisions from villages on the fringe of the forest.
- His ultimate ambition is to set up a chandler's shop, selling supplies for boats including provisions and provide pump-out facilities for canal boat toilets.
- Diego's limited supply of food was gone, leaving Royce's provisions as their only food source.
- There's just enough time to buy provisions for the journey before the long dormant sleeper train pulls up.
- Trailer loads of supplies and provisions poured in from the rest of the country, offering food, water, anything that might be of use.
- I know we have had experiences of Muslim officers at training school not being able to eat during the day, because they did not have the correct food provisions; that has been addressed.
- Thus, women refugees are denied independent access to necessary provisions including food, shelter, and medical supplies and services.
- This shop dealt in provisions and supplies for ships.
- After unpacking a few things we drove into the village which was just under a mile away and bought some provisions including bacon and sausages from the famous butchers there.
- The pair then went across the street to buy food provisions and returned shortly afterwards to find smoke billowing from the caravan.
Synonyms supplies, food and drink, food, stores, stocks, groceries, foodstuff, foodstuffs, rations, iron rations, eatables, edibles, fare, daily bread, staples
3A condition or requirement in a legal document. 条文，条款；规定 a key provision in civil rights law an appraisal under the provisions of the National Housing Act Example sentencesExamples - The Minister is the person who is liable to sue and be sued under the provisions of that statute.
- If anything herein contained to be invalid or unenforceable under the provisions of said act such circumstances shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other part or term of this Bill of Lading.
- At the end, it would be possible for Mr Young to apply for a further term under the provisions of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954.
- If you want me to proceed to trial in respect of Mrs. C then under the provisions of the Law Society guidelines I am required to notify you of my terms of business.
- Additionally, it made clear the judge had submitted a tax clearance certificate and a declaration, as required under the provisions of the Standards in Public Office Act.
- Dr. Klassen is required to disclose his report under the provisions of the rules.
- Alstom submits that its obligation to proceed under the provisions of clause 2 was subject to two contingent conditions precedent neither of which were satisfied.
- Veterans denied a pension and incapable of supporting themselves might seek charity under the provisions of the Poor Laws.
- He was told that he was not allowed to go there or to be there under the provisions of his parole conditions, but nothing was done.
- There is no basis under the provisions of the Immigration Rules for him to be admitted here.
- Under the provisions of rule 49.10, the successful parties would ordinarily be entitled to substantial indemnity costs.
- Prior to the 8th January the facts in the public domain included that the boys were held under the provisions of section 53 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933.
- He thereby became a reservist and for six years liable to recall as such under the provisions of the Reserve Forces Act 1996.
- Under the provisions of the Family Law Act, section 36, he had no jurisdiction to make an occupation order.
- But you cannot be a registered holder unless you are registered under the provisions of this deed as the holder of a unit.
- The Bill also proposes to strengthen provisions relating to the supply of liquor to minors and to strengthen liquor advertising law.
- There were 14 jurors empanelled, one of whom was discharged under the provisions of the Juries Act before the trial commenced.
- Mr Walsh said extending the labelling provisions to cover food service can be done without adding costs to the sector.
- Just what that guarantee might be Airshow hasn't said, but it would likely include equipment buy-back provisions should Globalstar ever go off the air.
- There was a hue and cry over her statement as the defence counsels brought to the notice of the judge that her rhetorics would invite legal actions under the provisions of the special Act.
Synonyms term, clause, requirement, specification, stipulation 4Christian Church
historical An appointment to a benefice, especially directly by the Pope rather than by the patron, and originally before it became vacant. 〔基督教〕〈史〉神职委任（尤指教皇对尚未缺额神职的预先委任） Example sentencesExamples - Even more insidious was the practice of papal provision, whereby the pope appointed his nominees, a number of them Italian, to clerical positions, particularly to prebends in cathedrals.
- Let us take another medieval example, the case of papal provisions in medieval England.
verbprəˈviZHənprəˈvɪʒən 1with object Supply with food, drink, or equipment, especially for a journey. （尤指为旅行准备的）必需品（如食品、饮料、设备） civilian contractors were responsible for provisioning these armies Example sentencesExamples - During their fieldwork with the monkeys there, investigators provisioned them with sweet potatoes, which a juvenile female named Imo soon began washing; she would bring her potatoes to a small river and clean them off before eating them.
- The Commissariat was the primary means by which the British army was provisioned both in Ireland and wherever else it operated.
- The company will ship anything, whatever the quantity, to provision a yacht worldwide.
- One group was given a food supplement, while the other group was deprived of part of the food provisioned by their parents.
- His brother Joseph, who already provisioned the French army through Francois Poisson, financed the Military Academy which the marquise founded, in exchange for the right to administer a lottery and levy a tax on playing cards.
- We found that females were more involved in direct care for the larvae and spent more time than did males provisioning the larvae with food.
- The boat can be fully provisioned with food, if you request, so that all you need do is fly in, step on board and sail away.
- Conrad's army did not provision itself well and was quickly short on water.
- Incubating female robins received 40% less food from males, females left their nests more frequently to forage on their own, and nestlings were provisioned with less food in the small fragments.
- Within each seed is an amorphous embryo made up of just a few cells; unlike the embryos of most seed plants, the orchid embryo is not provisioned with a food source.
- The male partner will provision his mate with food but does not go into the maternity den.
- And the King had all the army dispersed all over the country among his vassals, and they provisioned the army each in proportion to his land.
- It had left Chatham on the 28 th March having been partially provisioned for the long journey to Australia.
- His commercial activities are little evidenced, although he sold the borough 40s. worth of fish in 1358/59 to provision a community ship.
- Samori provisioned his armies and administration by trading cattle and slaves for European arms.
- They were normally kept fuelled and provisioned by supply ships, though Japanese island bases were used to refit and refuel some of them while Japan was still officially neutral.
- Lipton's grocery business provisioned the Volunteer camps, which had become the Territorial Army.
- The remaining men are now very well provisioned, and for once there is a surplus of most supplies.
- First we had to provision ourselves with the proper travel food.
- Now they took responsibility for provisioning the cities with food and maintaining the city walls to protect the population from the increasingly frequent barbarian raids.
Synonyms supply, provide, furnish, arm, equip, fit out, rig out, kit out, accoutre, outfit, fit up 2no object Set aside an amount in an organization's accounts for a known liability. （为已知债务）留出准备金 financial institutions have to provision against loan losses 金融机构必须为贷款损失提供准备金。 Example sentencesExamples - Although banks have adequately provisioned for bad assets and written off some of their bad assets, new NPLs have emerged.
- Failure to provision for projects to be undertaken tomorrow can deeply compromise those future projects.
- The goal of the audits, to extend into next year, is to flush out the bad loans, get them properly classified and provisioned, then start to crack down on chronic deadbeats.
- Financial and banking systems, once cleaned up and properly provisioned and mutually supervised, will start to mesh throughout a wider European monetary region, so that even country risk will drop sharply.
OriginLate Middle English (also in the sense ‘foresight’): via Old French from Latin provisio(n-), from providere ‘foresee, attend to’ (see provide). The verb dates from the early 19th century. |