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Definitions for Supply

[1] to furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking or requisite: to supply someone clothing; to supply a community with electricity.
[2] to furnish or provide (something wanting or requisite): to supply electricity to a community.
[3] to make up, compensate for, or satisfy (a deficiency, loss, need, etc.): The TVA supplied the need for cheap electricity.
[4] to fill or occupy as a substitute, as a vacancy, a pulpit, etc.: During the summer local clergymen will supply the pulpit.
[5] to fill the place of another, especially the pulpit of a church, temporarily or as a substitute: Who will supply until the new minister arrives?
[6] the act of supplying, furnishing, providing, satisfying, etc.: to begin the supply of household help.
[7] something that is supplied: The storm cut off our water supply.
[8] a quantity of something on hand or available, as for use; a stock or store: Did you see our new supply of shirts?
[9] Usually supplies . a provision, stock, or store of food or other things necessary for maintenance: to lay in supplies for the winter.
[10] Economics . the quantity of a commodity that is in the market and available for purchase or that is available for purchase at a particular price.
[11] supplies, Military . all items necessary for the equipment, maintenance, and operation of a military command, including food, clothing, arms, ammunition, fuel, materials, and machinery. procurement, distribution, maintenance, and salvage of supplies.
[12] a person who fills a vacancy or takes the place of another, especially temporarily.
[13] supplies. Obsolete . reinforcement(def 4) .
[14] Obsolete . aid.
[15] in a supple manner or way; supplely.
[16] (tr often foll by with ) to furnish with something that is required to supply the community with good government
[17] (tr; often foll by to or for) to make available or provide (something that is desired or lacking) to supply books to the library
[18] (tr) to provide for adequately; make good; satisfy who will supply their needs?
[19] to serve as a substitute, usually temporary, in (another's position, etc) there are no clergymen to supply the pulpit
[20] (tr) British to fill (a vacancy, position, etc)
[21] the act of providing or something that is provided (as modifier ) a supply dump
[22] (often plural) an amount available for use; stock
[23] (plural) food, equipment, etc, needed for a campaign or trip
[24] economics willingness and ability to offer goods and services for sale the amount of a commodity that producers are willing and able to offer for sale at a specified price Compare demand (def. 9)
[25] military the management and disposal of food and equipment (as modifier ) supply routes
[26] (often plural) a grant of money voted by a legislature for government expenses, esp those not covered by other revenues
[27] (in Parliament and similar legislatures) the money voted annually for the expenses of the civil service and armed forces
[28] a person who acts as a temporary substitute (as modifier ) a supply vicar
[29] a source of electrical energy, gas, etc
[30] obsolete aid or assistance
[31] in a supple manner

Words related to Supply

number, fund, amount, stockpile, inventory, stock, quantity, feed, grant, afford, transfer, contribute, deliver, yield, produce, equip, cater, find, store, fill

Words nearby Supply

suppliant, suppliants, the, supplicant, supplicate, supplication, supply, supply and demand, supply chain, supply teacher, supply-side, supply-side economics

Origin of Supply

2First recorded in 1525–35; supple + -ly

Other words from Supply

sup·pli·er , noun
un·sup·plied , adjective
well-sup·plied , adjective

Word origin for Supply

C14: from Old French souppleier, from Latin supplēre to complete, from sub- up + plēre to fill

Synonyms for Supply

amount, fund, inventory, number, quantity, stock, stockpile, accumulation, backlog, cache, hoard, reservoir, source, store, surplus