provisioning

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of provision

plural provisionings

1. An act of supplying with provisions.
2. The feeding of wild animals.

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   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, provisioning by tourists may also have negative impacts on the health of the animals involved; to date such impacts are poorly understood.

   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. computingThe 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