From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishprovide against something phrasal verb formalPLANto make plans in order to deal with a bad situation that might happen Health insurance will provide against loss of income if you become ill. → provide→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
provide against • Another £3.6m was provided against loans to the trustees of the Employee Share Option Trust.• Similar protection is provided against many other potentially dangerous organisms in the environment.• So many banks prefer to provide against their loans and pray for recovery.From Longman Business Dictionaryprovide against something phrasal verb [transitive] formal to make plans in order to deal with something that might happenHealth insurance can provide against loss of income through illness or accident. → provide→ See Verb table 