Array and Provision

noun

• An orderly arrangement.
  • usage: "an array of troops in battle order"
• An impressive display.
  • usage: "it was a bewildering array of books"; "his tools were in an orderly array on the basement wall"
• Especially fine or decorative clothing.
  • synonyms: raiment, regalia
• An arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics.

verb

• Lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line.
  • usage: "lay out the clothes"; "lay out the arguments"
  • synonyms: range, lay out, set out
• Align oneself with a group or a way of thinking.
  • synonyms: align

• (n.) Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.
• (n.) To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied especially to dress of a splendid kind.
• (n.) To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.
• (n.) The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
• (n.) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.
• (n.) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.
• (n.) The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers.
• (n.) An imposing series of things.
• (n.) Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.
• (n.) The panel itself.

noun

• A stipulated condition.
  • usage: "he accepted subject to one provision"
  • synonyms: proviso
• The activity of supplying or providing something.
  • synonyms: supply, supplying
• The cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening.
  • usage: "his planning for retirement was hindered by several uncertainties"
  • synonyms: planning, preparation
• A store or supply of something (especially of food or clothing or arms. )

verb

• Supply with provisions.
  • synonyms: purvey

• (n.) A canonical term for regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation.
• (n.) That which is stipulated in advance; a condition; a previous agreement; a proviso; as, the provisions of a contract; the statute has many provisions.
• (n.) A nomination by the pope to a benefice before it became vacant, depriving the patron of his right of presentation.
• (n.) The act of providing or making previous preparation.
• (n.) Especially, a stock of food; any kind of eatables collected or stored; -- often in the plural.
• (v.t.) To supply with food; to victual; as, to provision a garrison.
• (n.) That which is provided or prepared; that which is brought together or arranged in advance; measures taken beforehand; preparation.

Generally, is to prepare in advance for an event that is projected to place in the future. In accounting, it is an amount charged against profits for a specific liability (for example: bad debts, depreciation or taxes). A liability may be known, but the amount is often uncertain. This uncertainty may lead to an adjustment in a later income statement once the final amount of the liability is ascertained.