To provide for is to supply somebody with what they need to live. Provide for a family.
It means the necessities rather than anything more, which is what gives the phrase its weight. To provide for somebody in a will means leaving them enough to live on.
1phraseprovide forTo supply somebody with what they need to live.
“He worked two jobs to provide for four children.”
provide for is a phrase.
Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire