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    provisions


    1. Dave checks their provisions


    2. Our driver began unloading packages and provisions from the boot and seemed to take forever


    3. Berndt is providing all the items we need in the tent (!), sleeping bag and provisions line, though I shall be responsible for my own clothing and personal requirements


    4. But he insisted a detail should accompany her and carry any provisions she needed


    5. and he would need provisions for the trip


    6. adequate provisions, since the failed Ambush at


    7. They readied their provisions and set off for the site being readied for the Sacré-Cœur Basilica located at the summit of the butte Montmartre, the highest point in the city


    8. Amendments to these requirements and provisions shall be the responsibility of the School Committee, by charter


    9. When at last all provisions for the property and estate were concluded, they boarded the train for Tahoe and did not look back


    10. 26Those who eat from the king’s provisions will try to destroy him; his

    11. provisions, when I became aware of being followed up the


    12. and their hundredweight of provisions, we waved a fond


    13. After I had found by experience the ill consequences of being abroad in the rain, I took care to furnish myself with provisions beforehand, that I might not be obliged to go out, and I sat within doors as much as possible during the wet months


    14. Their usual pretences are, sometimes the high price of provisions, sometimes the great profit which their masters make by their work


    15. The price of provisions is everywhere in North America much lower than in England


    16. Secondly, the wages of labour do not, in Great Britain, fluctuate with the price of provisions


    17. The high price of provisions during these ten years past, has not, in many parts of the kingdom, been accompanied with any sensible rise in the money price of labour


    18. It has, indeed, in some ; owing, probably, more to the increase of the demand for labour, than to that of the price of provisions


    19. Thirdly, as the price of provisions varies more from year to year than the wages of labour, so, on the other hand, the wages of labour vary more from place to place than the price of provisions


    20. Fourthly, the variations in the price of labour not only do not correspond, either in place or time, with those in the price of provisions, but they are frequently quite opposite

    21. But the same cheapness of provisions, by increasing the fund which is destined for the maintenance of servants, encourages masters, farmers especially, to employ a greater number


    22. But the high price of provisions, by diminishing the funds destined for the maintenance of servants, disposes masters rather to diminish than to increase the number of those they have


    23. The rents of the one, and the profits of the other, depend very much upon the price of provisions


    24. Through the variations in the price of labour not only do not always correspond with those in the price of provisions, but are frequently quite opposite, we must not, upon this account, imagine that the price of provisions has no influence upon that of labour


    25. Though the money price of labour, therefore, is sometimes high where the price of provisions is low, it would be still higher, the demand continuing the same, if the price of provisions was high


    26. The scarcity of a dear year, by diminishing the demand for labour, tends to lower its price, as the high price of provisions tends to raise it


    27. The plenty of a cheap year, on the contrary, by increasing the demand, tends to raise the price of labour, as the cheapness of provisions tends to lower it


    28. In the ordinary variations of the prices of provisions, those two opposite causes seem to counterbalance one another, which is probably, in part, the reason why the wages of labour are everywhere so much more steady and permanent than the price of provisions


    29. appropriate the provisions of the Kingdom and to finance moves


    30. collected the prices of labour and provisions in ancient times, and who have taken pleasure in

    31. The price which the town really pays for the provisions and materials annually imported into


    32. dealers, by regulating the price of provisions and ether goods


    33. In March 1764, there was a parliamentary inquiry into the causes of the high price of provisions at that time


    34. It therefore ordains, that all servants and labourers should, for the future, be contented with the same wages and liveries (liveries in those times signified not only clothes, but provisions) which they had been accustomed to receive in the 20th year of the king, and the four preceding years; that, upon this account, their livery-wheat should nowhere be estimated higher than tenpence a-bushel, and that it should always be in the option of the master to deliver them either the wheat or the money


    35. been reckoned a very moderate price of wheat, since it required a particular statute to oblige servants to accept of it in exchange for their usual livery of provisions ; and it had been reckoned a reasonable price ten years before that, or in the 16th year of the king, the term to which the statute refers


    36. ‘You’ll need to take lots of provisions with you, then


    37. By diminishing the number of those small occupiers, therefore, the quantity of this sort of provisions, which is thus produced at little or no expense, must certainly have been a good deal diminished, and their price must consequently have been raised both sooner and faster than it would otherwise have risen


    38. They stopped for provisions in a small


    39. In an improved and cultivated country, therefore, their interest as landlords and farmers cannot be much affected by such regulations, though their interest as consumers may, by the rise in the price of provisions


    40. But the rise in the price of provisions, which has been the subject of so much reasoning and conversation, does not affect all sorts of provisions equally

    41. Taking the course of the present century at an average, the price of corn, it is acknowledged, even by those who account for this rise by the degradation of the value of silver, has risen much less than that of some other sorts of provisions


    42. The rise in the price of those other sorts of provisions, therefore, cannot be owing altogether to the degradation of the value of silver


    43. provisions, of which the price has actually risen in proportion to that of corn


    44. The opinion, therefore, that silver is continually sinking in its value, seems not to be founded upon any good observations, either upon the prices of corn, or upon those of other provisions


    45. The same quantity of silver, it may perhaps be said, will, in the present times, even according to the account which has been here given, purchase a much smaller quantity of several sorts of provisions than it would have done during some part of the last century ; and to ascertain whether this change be owing to a rise in the value of those goods, or to a fall in the value of silver, is only to establish a vain and useless distinction, which can be of no sort of service to the man who has only a certain quantity of silver to go to market with, or a certain fixed revenue in money


    46. If the rise in the price of some sorts of provisions be owing altogether to a fall in the value of silver, it is owing to a circumstance, from which nothing can be inferred but the fertility of the American mines


    47. But if this rise in the price of some sorts of provisions be owing to a rise in the real value of the land which produces them, to its increased fertility, or, in consequence of more extended improvement and good cultivation, to its having been rendered fit for producing corn; it is owing to a circumstance which indicates, in the clearest manner, the prosperous and advancing state of the country


    48. If this rise in the price of some sorts of provisions be owing to a fall in the value of silver, their pecuniary reward, provided it was not too large before, ought certainly to be augmented in proportion to the extent of this fall


    49. But if this rise of price is owing to the increased value, in consequence of the improved fertility of the land which produces such provisions, it becomes a much nicer matter to judge, either in what proportion any pecuniary reward ought to be augmented, or whether it ought to be augmented at all


    50. As the division of labour advances, therefore, in order to give constant employment to an equal number of workmen, an equal stock of provisions, and a greater stock of materials and tools than what would have been necessary in a ruder state of things, must be accumulated before-hand














































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    Synonyms for "provisions"

    commissariat provender provisions viands victuals food repast

    "provisions" definitions

    a stock or supply of foods