Provide vs. Facilitate — What's the Difference?

To make available (something needed or desired); furnish

To make easy or easier

To supply something needed or desired to

To lead (a discussion), as by asking questions, mediating between opposing viewpoints, or ensuring that all participants' views are heard.

To have as an available or desirable feature; afford

To make easy or easier.

To set down as a stipulation or requirement

To help bring about.

(Archaic) To make ready ahead of time; prepare.

To preside over (a meeting, a seminar).

To take measures in preparation

To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of; as, to facilitate the execution of a task.

To supply means of subsistence

Make easier;

To make a stipulation or requirement

Be of use;

To make a living; earn money for necessities.

Physiology: increase the likelihood of (a response);

To act to prepare for something.

To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.

To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.

To furnish (with), cause to be present.

To make possible or attainable.

To foresee, to consider in advance.

To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.

To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.

To supply; to afford; to contribute.

To furnish; to supply; - formerly followed by of, now by with.

To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate; as, the contract provides that the work be well done.

To foresee.

To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See Provisor.

To procure supplies or means in advance; to take measures beforehand in view of an expected or a possible future need, especially a danger or an evil; - followed by against or for; as, to provide against the inclemency of the weather; to provide for the education of a child.

To stipulate previously; to condition; as, the agreement provides for an early completion of the work.

Provide or furnish with;

Provide what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance;

Determine (what is to happen in certain contingencies), especially by including a proviso condition or stipulation;

Mount or put up;

Make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain;

Supply means of subsistence; earn a living;

Take measures in preparation for;