Essential
Provision
Provision noun - Something upon which the carrying out of an agreement or offer depends.
Usage example: loaned them the car with the provision that they refill the gas tank before returning it
Essential and provision are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Essential" instead a noun "Provision".
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| secret | secret essential | secret provision |
Both words in one sentence
- This refers to a provision in the Taft-Hartley Act which allows a non-union worker with an "essential quality or skill" to be hired for a union job if no union member with that skill can be found.
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Provision and Essential. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/essential/provision
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