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provisionment en · NOUN

Etymology

From provision + -ment.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The supplying of provisions.
   • Those were wartime provisionments, with Michel being granted "economy" (i.e., commission) contract arrangements; the navy thereby consented to bear much of the risk and cost, including costs engendered by long delays en route, as in 1747-1748, when six cargoes of Michel's masts were tied up in Holland at one time, the carrier being unable to proceed to France. 1988, Paul Walden Bamford, Privilege and Profit: A Business Family in Eighteenth-Century France:
   • But the Spanish Fathers […] came into a hostile country, carrying little provisionment but their breviary and crucifix. 1927, Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Book IX, section 4, page 278-279:

Forms

Deriveds

reprovisionment