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Verb: Used in Business Spanish as to provide or facilitate what is necessary or convenient for a purpose. E.g.: Las concesiones atraen a inversores cuando debido a restricciones de financiamiento, el operador nacional no puede proveer el servicio: Granting concessions attracts investors when restricted funding prevents the national carrier from providing the service.
It is very common to mix this verb up with prever: ‘to foresee’, because their conjugations are very similar: proveer: proveo, proveí, proveyera; prever: preveo, preví, preveyera.
The nouns are la provisión and el proveedor/la proveedora (the contractor/suplier); and the noun for prever is la previsión: ‘forecast’. The adjctives for previsión are previsto/a: ‘forecasted’, and previsor/a: ‘foresighted, far-sighted’. Synonyms of previsor/a can be prevenido/a and precavido/a.
In another note, un/una veedor/a is an observer or a seer. I believe it is here where resides the origin of the confusion between proveer and prever. I do not know why veedor has two es. dc

Verb: To exercise the obligations inherent to a profession, position or trade. E.g.: Se pretende que ninguno de los que han desempeñado las funciones de ministerio fiscal pueda desempeñar funciones de juez: You say that no magistrate who has held the office of Public Prosecutor can perform the functions of a judge.
The noun is el desempeño. dc

Adverbial locution: Upon request. This expression is mainly used in Legal Spanish as an opposite of de oficio: ex officio. E.g.: Presentadas las liquidaciones por el acreedor y/o el deudor, el juez de oficio o a pedido de parte, citará a una audiencia obligatoria de conciliación: The judge, on its own motion or at the request of a party, shall call a mandatory settlement hearing in order to seek an agreement. dc

Verb: To continue, to delay, to extend something for a certain time. E.g.: También se prorrogó el mandato del Presidente interino a 120 días: It also extended the mandate of the interim President to 120 days.
The noun is la prórroga and the adjective prorrogable. dc