What is the meaning of provide?

verb

• Give something useful or necessary to.
  • usage: "We provided the room with an electrical heater"
  • synonyms: supply, render, furnish
• Give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance.
  • usage: "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests"
  • synonyms: supply, ply, cater
• Determine (what is to happen in certain contingencies), especially by including a proviso condition or stipulation.
  • usage: "The will provides that each child should receive half of the money"; "The Constitution provides for the right to free speech"
• Mount or put up.
  • usage: "put up a good fight"; "offer resistance"
  • synonyms: put up, offer
• Make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain.
  • usage: "This leaves no room for improvement"; "The evidence allows only one conclusion"; "allow for mistakes"; "leave lots of time for the trip"; "This procedure provides for lots of leeway"
  • synonyms: leave, allow for, allow
• Supply means of subsistence; earn a living.
  • usage: "He provides for his large family by working three jobs"; "Women nowadays not only take care of the household but also bring home the bacon"
  • synonyms: bring home the bacon
• Take measures in preparation for.
  • usage: "provide for the proper care of the passengers on the cruise ship"