To Provide

1. To make a living; earn money for necessities.
2. To act to prepare for something.
3. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
4. To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
5. To furnish (with), cause to be present.
6. To make possible or attainable.
7. (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
8. To appoint to an ecclesiastical beneficebefore it is vacant.

Usage notesEdit

As seen in the examples, when not used with that for previous conditions, provide is used with the prepositions for (beneficiary; also without preposition, usual for pronouns) and with (object).