How to say "provisions" in Japanese

• 食糧しょくりょうJLPT N3approx.Common
  nounProvisions in the food sense: staple foods such as rice or wheat, whether as rations for an expedition or as a food supply for a region. Broader than 糧食, since it also covers food itself.
  食糧しょくりょうが不足ふそくしている。↗

  Food has been in short supply.
• 条文じょうぶんCommon
  nounProvisions in the legal sense only: the written text of a law, treaty, or contract — its clauses. It has nothing to do with food, so it never works for the food sense.
  彼かれは法律ほうりつの条文じょうぶんの意味いみに固執こしつする。↗

  He keeps to the letter of the law.
• 糧食りょうしょくCommon
  nounProvisions as food, essentially a synonym of 食糧: edible supplies for people to live on. Narrower than 食糧, which also covers food in general, so 食糧 serves when that broader sense is needed.
  探検たんけん隊たいの糧食りょうしょくはすぐ尽つきてしまった。↗

  The expedition's supplies soon gave out.

For provisions as food supplies choose 食糧, which also covers food, staples, and rations generally, or 糧食, confined to provisions; for provisions as the text or clauses of a law, treaty, or contract, use 条文.

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• 食糧しょくりょうfood (esp. staple food such as rice or wheat)
• 条文じょうぶんtext (of a law, treaty, contract, etc.)
• 糧食りょうしょくprovisions
• 糧かてfood
• 条章じょうしょうprovisions (e.g. in a constitution)
• 用度ようどsupplies
• 引当金ひきあてきんreserves
• 行動食こうどうしょくhigh-energy food (when hiking, etc.)
• 支給品しきゅうひんsupplies
• 兵糧ひょうろう(army) provisions