PROVISION

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Traducere în limba română

provision I. substantiv

1. măsură, dispoziţie; luare de măsuri;

to make provision for one’s child a) a se îngriji de copilul său; b) a-şi căpătui copilul;

to make provision against a lua măsuri de apărare împotriva (cu gen.);

provision for smth. luare de măsuri pentru a asigura ceva.

2. provizie, rezervă (de valută, capital, marfă etc.).

3. plural rezerve de hrană, provizii (alimentare).

4. articol, clauză, stipulaţie (într-un contract etc.);

no provision to the contrary nu există clauză contrară;

to come within the provisions of the law a cădea sub prevederile legii.

5. pensie;

to make a provision for smb. a asigura o pensie cuiva.

◊ provision and issue of coins batere şi emisiune de monede.

provision II. verb tranzitiv

1. a aproviziona; a înzestra.

2. a înarma.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

On the other hand, all the exposed provisions—and I remembered that there were a considerable quantity of them—were gone.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“By the by, Wickfield,” he said, stopping in a passage with his hand on my shoulder; “you have not found any suitable provision for my wife's cousin yet?”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The provision of medical care.

(Health Care Delivery, NCI Thesaurus)

A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again, and if her home be uncomfortable, or her fortune small, I can suppose that she might bring herself to submit to the offices of a nurse, for the sake of the provision and security of a wife.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Mr. Bennet had very often wished before this period of his life that, instead of spending his whole income, he had laid by an annual sum for the better provision of his children, and of his wife, if she survived him.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

“But we must make a provision for winter, or else we shall suffer from hunger,” said the cat; “and you, little mouse, cannot venture everywhere, or you will be caught in a trap some day.”

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

We made no more provision for growing older, than we did for growing younger.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Mr. Dashwood had wished for it more for the sake of his wife and daughters than for himself or his son;—but to his son, and his son's son, a child of four years old, it was secured, in such a way, as to leave to himself no power of providing for those who were most dear to him, and who most needed a provision by any charge on the estate, or by any sale of its valuable woods.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

I said to Annie, when Doctor Strong paid a very flattering visit to myself, and made her the subject of a declaration and an offer, I said, My dear, there is no doubt whatever, in my opinion, with reference to a suitable provision for you, that Doctor Strong will do more than he binds himself to do.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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