provisionment

English

Etymology

provision +‎ -ment

Noun

provisionment (countable and uncountable, plural provisionments)

1. The supplying of provisions.
   • 1927, Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Book IX, section 4, page 278-279:

     But the Spanish Fathers […] came into a hostile country, carrying little provisionment but their breviary and crucifix.

   • 1988, Paul Walden Bamford, Privilege and Profit: A Business Family in Eighteenth-Century France:

     Those were wartime provisionments, with Michel being granted "economy" (i.e., commission) contract arrangements; the navy thereby consented to bear much of the risk and cost, including costs engendered by long delays en route, as in 1747-1748, when six cargoes of Michel's masts were tied up in Holland at one time, the carrier being unable to proceed to France.