Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Want of forecast; improvidence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Improvidence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
improvising , or somethingimprovised ;improvisation - noun obsolete The lack of
provision , a failure to provide something.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Just about every supporting player is hailed for their "improvision" abilities and ability to "freak" their roles.
A.V. Club 2010
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Just about every supporting player is hailed for their "improvision" abilities and ability to "freak" their roles.
A.V. Club 2010
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Just about every supporting player is hailed for their "improvision" abilities and ability to "freak" their roles.
A.V. Club 2010
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Just about every supporting player is hailed for their "improvision" abilities and ability to "freak" their roles.
A.V. Club 2010
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Just about every supporting player is hailed for their "improvision" abilities and ability to "freak" their roles.
A.V. Club 2010
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It would be helpful of course if the U.N. Emergency Force could be set up on a permanent stand-by basis to avoid improvision in emergencies.
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Amid this scene an insane woman was wandering, blithely singing little songs of her own improvision about the earthquake and the killing.
Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror Trumbull White 1904
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It was an Eskimo coat, tied into the form of a bag, and in the bottom of this improvision was a lump half the size of a water pail.
The Golden Snare James Oliver Curwood 1903
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Bang! sounded a new improvision on the sadly battered pail, and to a new step Jimmy flashed back and forth the length of the saloon.
At the Foot of the Rainbow Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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So it wouldn't mess with anything matching up at all, because it would always look for the original filename, but if it's results return nothing; it does a little improvision to hopefully find the best result.
MacUpdate - Mac OS X 2009
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