provident

suomi-englanti sanakirja

provident englannista suomeksi

  1. kaukonäköinen

  2. huolehtivainen, säästäväinen

  1. kaukokatseinen, kaukoviisas

  2. Verbi

provident englanniksi

  1. Possessing, exercising, or demonstrating great care and consideration for the future.

  2. (RQ:Shakespeare Twelfth Night)

  3. (quote-book)|title=The Belman of London|location=London|editor=Nathaniell Butter|chapter=Vincents Law|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20042.0001.001|text=Since then that all kinde of Gaming serues but as gulphes to deuoure the substances of men, and to swallow them vp in beggerie, my counsell is vtterly either to refraine such pastimes, or if men are of such spirits that they must needes venture their money, then to be very prouident how they play, and to be choise of their company.

  4. (quote-book)|title=The Fashionable Lover|location=London|editor=W. Griffin|section=act 5|page=61|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004781973.0001.000|text=(..) I have toiled on through eighteen years of wearisome adventure: crown’d with success, I now at length return, and find my daughter all my fondest hope could represent; but past experience makes me provident; I would secure my treasure; I would bestow it now in faithful hands—What say you, Sir, will you accept the charge?

  5. (quote-book)21|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4274/4274-h/4274-h.htm|text=She had forgotten her purse, she said, and was obliged to borrow from the more provident Molly, who was aware that the round game of which Miss Browning had spoken to her was likely to require money.

  6. (RQ:William Burroughs Naked Lunch)

  7. Showing care in the use of something (especially money or provisions), so as to avoid wasting it.

  8. (quote-book)

  9. Providing (for someone’s needs).

  10. (quote-book); et al.|title=General View of the Agriculture of the West Riding of Yorkshire|location=London|publisher=W. Bulmer|section=Appendix, No. 8|page=93|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004806770.0001.000|text=These advantages soil receives from the culture of seeds, exclusive of the ''rest and manure'', which is scattered upon it by that most provident of all cattle, sheep (..)

  11. (inflection of)