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Definition of "provided" []

  • On the condition; if: will pay the bonus provided the job is completed on time. (conjunction)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "provided" in a sentence
  • "Another clause provided that all persons then in the army, under eighteen and over thirty-five, might return home discharged from the service within ninety days after the act took effect, _provided_, their regiments were filled up with conscripts."
  • "If I am right in the foregoing propositions, the result will be that the proposed law will leave in the Secretary of the Treasury power to _prohibit_ the receipt of particular _notes provided his prohibition apply to both lands and duties, _and power to _direct_ what particular notes allowed by the law shall be received _provided he can find a deposit bank which will agree to receive and [credit] them as cash_."
  • "The authors have also included names of companies and products upon occasion, if they thought that mentioning the name provided relevant information for you."