- 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.
- to furnish or provide (something wanting or requisite): to supply electricity to a community.
- to make up, compensate for, or satisfy (a deficiency, loss, need, etc.): The TVA supplied the need for cheap electricity.
- to fill or occupy as a substitute, as a vacancy, a pulpit, etc.: During the summer local clergymen will supply the pulpit.
- 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?
- the act of supplying, furnishing, providing, satisfying, etc.: to begin the supply of household help.
- something that is supplied: The storm cut off our water supply.
- a quantity of something on hand or available, as for use; a stock or store: Did you see our new supply of shirts?
- a provision, stock, or store of food or other things necessary for maintenance: to lay in supplies for the winter.
- the quantity of a commodity that is in the market and available for purchase or that is available for purchase at a particular price.
- 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.
- a person who fills a vacancy or takes the place of another, especially temporarily.
- reinforcement (def. 4).
- aid.
- in a supple manner or way; supplely.
- to furnish with something that is required
- to make available or provide (something that is desired or lacking)
- to provide for adequately; make good; satisfy
- to serve as a substitute, usually temporary, in (another's position, etc)
- to fill (a vacancy, position, etc)
- the act of providing or something that is provided
- (as modifier)
- an amount available for use; stock
- food, equipment, etc, needed for a campaign or trip
- 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
- military
- the management and disposal of food and equipment
- (as modifier)
- a grant of money voted by a legislature for government expenses, esp those not covered by other revenues
- (in Parliament and similar legislatures) the money voted annually for the expenses of the civil service and armed forces
- a person who acts as a temporary substitute
- (as modifier)
- a source of electrical energy, gas, etc
- aid or assistance
- in a supple manner
