Meaning & use

provisioned

verb·Academic

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Supplied with necessary goods, equipment, or resources.

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The expedition was provisioned with enough food for six months.

The IT team provisioned new laptops for every employee before launch day.

A note on using this word

Widely used in shipping, military, and outdoor contexts for physical supplies, and now also in IT for setting up computing resources.

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