Synonyms for Provisions
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1. commissariat, provisions, provender, viands, victualsnoun

   a stock or supply of foods

   Synonyms:
   victual, nutrition, nutriment, pabulum, viands, alimentation, victuals, provender, feed, aliment, provisions, comestible, commissariat, sustenance, edible, nourishment, eatable

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1. • Food

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1. provisionsnoun

   Synonyms:
   FOOD, victuals, provender, fare, eatables, viands, subsistence, BREAD

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1. List of paraphrases for "provisions":

   arrangements, provision, clauses, dispositions, rules, regulations, requirements, stipulations, terms, articles, measures, clause, judgements, disposiciones, sentences, steps, requirement, texts, appropriations, prescriptions, arrangement, verdicts

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1. Mike Lee:

   Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., supports the legislation and had hoped to pass it last Thursday, but Mitch McConnell was forced to delay consideration past the expiration date after Mike Lee, R-Utah, and two other senators Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Ron Wyden said they would object. The House legislation, negotiated by White House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, would renew several provisions the FBI sees as vital to fighting terrorism but also aim to ensure stricter oversight of how the bureau conducts surveillance. PAUL : MY FISA AMENDMENT WILL KEEP Mike Lee had proposed a deal on the Senate floor Thursday extension of the current authorities if the Senate would consider several amendments to the White House bill that would further limit them. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, speaking on the floor for Mitch McConnell, objected to that deal, saying the Senate should instead pass the House bill. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has pushed for FISA reforms. ( AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Were not a rubberstamp for the House of Representatives, were certainly not a rubber stamp for the Deep State.

2. Lauren Blair Aronson:

   Sen. Cruz has been a leading advocate for school choice in the Senate GOP, throughout the pandemic, he has urged his colleagues to focus on solutions that will help get Americans safely back to work and our kids safely back into the classroom, including provisions of his Education Freedom Scholarship and Opportunity Act, which would give families the resources they need to ensure their children have access to a quality education in these uncertain times.

3. President Sarah Nelson:

   We are concerned especially about fast track, because we know that if you don't even see the provisions in that agreement, there is going to be something bad for labor.

4. Abraham Lincoln:

   Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.

5. Sherrilyn Ifill:

   There is a huge divide that exists between us, our country remains deeply segregated and we need not only provisions of the Fair Housing Act to be intact, but we need aggressive, and affirmative enforcement of the act by the federal government and by state jurisdictions.