Provide
Definition
Example
"Parents provide food and clothes for their children."
"The company provides free training to help workers improve their skills."
"Good hospitals provide care, medicine, and support so patients can recover safely and quickly."
Explanation
To provide means to give something that is needed or wanted. When you provide something, you make it available so that others can use it. For example, parents provide food and care for their children, and schools provide education and learning opportunities. The word can be understood through two root parts: pro and vid. Pro means “forward or ahead”, and vid means “to see”. The idea is seeing ahead and preparing for a need before it happens. From this idea, the word developed the modern meaning of supplying or giving something that people need.