[suh-plahy] 
verb, -plied, -ply⋅ing, noun, plural -plies.| 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, esp. 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.
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| 12. | a person who fills a vacancy or takes the place of another, esp. temporarily. |
| 13. | supplies. Obsolete. reinforcements. |
| 14. | Obsolete. aid. |
| sup·ply (sə-plī') v. sup·plied, sup·ply·ing, sup·plies v. tr.
To fill a position as a substitute. n. pl. sup·plies
[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. |
