Difference between Provision and Purvey

What is the difference between Provision and Purvey?

Provision as a verb is to supply with provisions. while Purvey as a verb is to prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision.

Provision

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An item of goods or supplies obtained for future use. Money set aside for a future event. A liability or contra account to recognise likely future adverse events associated with current transactions. A clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To supply with provisions.

Example sentence: In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.

Purvey

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision.To furnish or provide.

We hope you now know whether to use Provision or Purvey in your sentence.

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