provisionment

English

Etymology

provision + -ment

Noun

provisionment (countable and uncountable, plural provisionments)

  1. The supplying of provisions.
    • 1988, Paul Walden Bamford, Privilege and Profit: A Business Family in Eighteenth-Century France:
      Those were wartime provisionments, with Michel being granted "economy" (i.e., commission) contract arrangements; the navy thereby consented to bear much of the risk and cost, including costs engendered by long delays en route, as in 1747-1748, when six cargoes of Michel's masts were tied up in Holland at one time, the carrier being unable to proceed to France.
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