transitive. To support, maintain, provide for (a person). Formerly also: †to provide for the maintenance of (an institution, a light or lamp in a…

To maintain (a person, etc.) in life and health; to provide with food, drink, and other substances… transitive. With a person, an animal, one's…

To endow, make provision for the maintenance of (persons who are to perform certain functions). Obsolete.

To provide for the sustenance of; to provide with food and clothing and other requisites of life; to maintain, support. Also reflexive.

transitive. To provide (oneself, one's family, etc.) with means of subsistence or the necessaries of life; to bear the living, educational, etc…

transitive. = sustain, v. (in various senses).

To provide food or sustenance for; to keep alive. Also more generally: to provide with shelter and… transitive. Of a person, community…

To provide with sustenance; to support with food, etc. Now dialect.

transitive. Of provisions, funds, or a person who is the source of these: to provide sustenance for; to support or maintain with provisions or funds…

transitive. To pay a reckoning for, maintain.

transitive. = to fend for at sense 4b (4b). Hence, to provide sustenance for, support, maintain. Chiefly Scottish and dialect.

transitive. figurative. To maintain, sustain, support.

Originally U.S. transitive. Originally and chiefly U.S. To support or provide for (a family or individual).

transitive to furnish with grub-stake; also transferred.