provisioned
- 1Simple past and past participle of provision.
The quartermaster provisioned the garrison well ahead of the coming siege.
By the time they cast off, the boat had been provisioned for a three-month voyage.
Note
A regular past form that serves two quite different trades. Quartermasters use it of stores laid in, such as food and goods put by for what lies ahead. System administrators use it of accounts, resources and software set up so that a user or a bare machine is ready for work. Both meanings are transitive, so the form turns up readily in the passive: a garrison is provisioned, and so is a new user account.
provisioned is a form of provision
provision, verb: To supply someone or something with food and other necessary supplies. Full entry
- Forms
- provisionprovisions he/she/itprovisioning -ing formprovisioned past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- provision → provisioned: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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