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sup⋅ply

1  [suh-plahy] verb, -plied, -ply⋅ing, noun, plural -plies.
Use supplied in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
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.
–verb (used without object)
5. to fill the place of another, esp. the pulpit of a church, temporarily or as a substitute: Who will supply until the new minister arrives?
–noun
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.
a. all items necessary for the equipment, maintenance, and operation of a military command, including food, clothing, arms, ammunition, fuel, materials, and machinery.
b. procurement, distribution, maintenance, and salvage of supplies.
12. a person who fills a vacancy or takes the place of another, esp. temporarily.
13. supplies. Obsolete. reinforcements.
14. Obsolete. aid.
Origin:
1325–75; (v.) ME sup(p)lien < MF souplier, var. of soupleer ≪ L supplēre to fill up, equiv. to sup- sup- + plēre to fill (see full 1 ); (n.) late ME: aid, succor, deriv. of the v.

Related forms:
sup⋅pli⋅er, noun
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sup·ply   (sə-plī')   
v.   sup·plied, sup·ply·ing, sup·plies

v.   tr.
  1. To make available for use; provide.
  2. To furnish or equip with: supplied sheets for every bed.
  3. To fill sufficiently; satisfy: supply a need.
  4. To make up for (a deficiency, for example); compensate for.
  5. To serve temporarily as a substitute in (a church, for example).
v.   intr.
To fill a position as a substitute.
n.   pl. sup·plies
  1. The act of supplying.
  2. Something that is or can be supplied.
  3. An amount available or sufficient for a given use; stock.
  4. Materials or provisions stored and dispensed when needed. Often used in the plural.
  5. Economics The amount of a commodity available for meeting a demand or for purchase at a given price.
  6. A cleric serving as a substitute or temporary pastor.

[Middle English supplien, to help, complete, furnish with additional troops, from Old French soupleer, to fill up, from Latin supplēre : sub-, from below; see sub- + plēre, to fill; see pelə-1 in Indo-European roots.]
sup·pli'er n.
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