provision
Example Sentences
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My mother rides our donkey, and my brothers, Isaac and Jacob, carry our provisions—bread and cheese, eggplant empanadillas, roasted eggs, olives cured in salt, dried figs, almonds, and walnuts—and our few belongings.
From Literature
Together, these provisions — while well-meaning and politically popular in many cases — create limitations that make budgeting a challenge in California.
From Los Angeles Times
It also said it will assist Google with complying with provisions that concern how the company lets competing search engines access datasets for areas such as ranking and queries held by Google Search.
Deputy Helen Miles, chair of the Corporate Services Scrutiny Panel, called it a "practical step" and agreed the current provision for credit cards was "limited by current rules around data sharing".
From BBC
A provision to the New York constitution, passed by amendment in 2014, requires drawing districts so that minority groups, “based on the totality of the circumstances,” do not “have less opportunity” to choose representatives.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
