provision

1. 1.

   supply with provisions

   Synonymspurvey

   Broadersupply

Other forms of provision

plural

provisions·

past tense

provisioned·

present participle

provisioning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about provision

What does provision mean?

provision means "a stipulated condition". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in provision?

provision has 3 syllables: pro-vis-ion. The stress falls on "vis". In IPA it is /pɹəˈvɪʒən/.

What is another word for provision?

Close synonyms include proviso, supply, supplying, planning, preparation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is provision a common word?

provision is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with provision?

7 words rhyme with provision. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.