English tend to provide for universal support (7)
I believe the answer is:
endorse
'support' is the definition.
(I know that support can be written as endorse)
'english tend to provide for universal' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'english' could be 'e' (abbreviation) and 'e' is found in the answer.
'provide' could be 'do' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'do' is found within the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
(Other definitions for endorse that I've seen before include "Champion" , "Say you approve" , "Add one's authority to" , "Give one's approval to" , "Approve officially" .)