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provisioning

provisioning is the present participle and gerund of provision.

Noun

provisioning (plural provisionings)

  1. An act of supplying with provisions.
  2. The feeding of wild animals.
    • Feeding wildlife is a very popular tourist activity, largely because it facilitates the close observation of animals in their natural habitat. Such provisioning may benefit animals by improving their survival and reproductive success, especially during periods of natural food shortage. However...2016, Laëtitia Maréchal, Stuart Semple, Bonaventura Majolo, Ann MacLarnon, “Assessing the Effects of Tourist Provisioning on the Health of Wild Barbary Macaques in Morocco”, in PLoS ONE
  3. The installation of software on a system, especially when automated.
    • The problem of installing software on a booted system is known as provisioning, and is often the job of shell scripts, configuration management systems, or manual command-line entry.2015, Michael Peacock, Creating Development Environments with Vagrant, Second edition, Packt, →ISBN, page 37

Meaning of provision

Verb

provision (third-person singular simple present provisions, present participle provisioning, simple past and past participle provisioned)

  1. (transitive) To supply with provisions.
    • to provision an army
  2. (transitive) To supply (a user) with an account, resources, etc. so that they can use a system; to install the necessary software on a bare-bones system so it can be used for a specific purpose.
    • A solution is to provision new systems on a private network where they can receive updates, patches, and secure configurations from an internal repository before being placed into a production network.2023, Kenneth Hess, Practical Linux System Administration, O'Reilly, →ISBN
    Antonyms:
    deprovision

See all 9 meanings of provision

Forms of provisioning

pluralprovisionings

Questions about provisioning

What does provisioning mean?
Provisioning means an act of supplying with provisions.
What is provisioning the present participle and gerund of?
Provisioning is the present participle and gerund of provision.
What part of speech is provisioning?
Provisioning is a noun.
What is the plural of provisioning?
The plural of provisioning is provisionings.

Words near provisioning in the dictionary

  1. provisionals
  2. provisionary
  3. provisioned
  4. provisioner
  5. provisioners
  6. provisioning
  7. provisionings
  8. provisionless
  9. provisionment
  10. provisionments
  11. provisions

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