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Provisions (finance)


Money set aside in the accounts (and charged against profits' to provide against expected losses such as bad debts.





ramsons (iou)



ramsons noun pl. (now treated as sing.). .
[Old English hramsan pl. of hramsa, -se (see RAMS), but later taken as sing., with pl. -s.]
A wild garlic, Allium ursinum, with broad flat leaves and umbels of white flowers, native to damp woods; its bulbous root, formerly eaten as a relish.