provisionment

plural provisionments

1. countableuncountableThe supplying of provisions.

   But the Spanish Fathers […] came into a hostile country, carrying little provisionment but their breviary and crucifix.

   1927, Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Book IX, section 4, page 278-279

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   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.

   1988, Paul Walden Bamford, Privilege and Profit: A Business Family in Eighteenth-Century France