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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, especially the pulpit of a church, temporarily or as a substitute: Who will supply until the new minister arrives?
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Supplies
is always a great word to know.
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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?
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Usually, supplies. a provision, stock, or store of food or other things necessary for maintenance: to lay in supplies for the winter.
10.
EXPANDEconomics. 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, especially temporarily.
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COLLAPSEObsolete. aid.
Origin:
1325–75; (v.) Middle English sup(p)lien < Middle French souplier, variant of soupleer ≪ Latin supplēre to fill up, equivalent to sup- sup- + plēre to fill (see full1); (noun) late Middle English: aid, succor, derivative of the v.
1325–75; (v.) Middle English sup(p)lien < Middle French souplier, variant of soupleer ≪ Latin supplēre to fill up, equivalent to sup- sup- + plēre to fill (see full1); (noun) late Middle English: aid, succor, derivative of the v.
Related forms
sup·pli·er, noun
un·sup·plied, adjective
well-sup·plied, adjective
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