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Supply   /səplˈaɪ/   Listen
noun
Supply  n.  (pl. supplies)  
1.
The act of supplying; supplial.
2.
That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want. Specifically:
(a)
Auxiliary troops or reenforcements. "My promised supply of horsemen."
(b)
The food, and the like, which meets the daily necessities of an army or other large body of men; store; used chiefly in the plural; as, the army was discontented for lack of supplies.
(c)
An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies.
(d)
A person who fills a place for a time; one who supplies the place of another; a substitute; esp., a clergyman who supplies a vacant pulpit.
Stated supply (Eccl.), a clergyman employed to supply a pulpit for a definite time, but not settled as a pastor. (U.S.)
Supply and demand. (Polit. Econ.) "Demand means the quantity of a given article which would be taken at a given price. Supply means the quantity of that article which could be had at that price."


verb
Supply  v. t.  (past & past part. supplied; pres. part. supplying)  
1.
To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial lake; often followed by with before the thing furnished; as, to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition.
2.
To serve instead of; to take the place of. "Burning ships the banished sun supply." "The sun was set, and Vesper, to supply His absent beams, had lighted up the sky."
3.
To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of; as, to supply a pulpit.
4.
To give; to bring or furnish; to provide; as, to supply money for the war.
Synonyms: To furnish; provide; administer; minister; contribute; yield; accommodate.


adjective
Supply  adj.  Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve.
Supply system (Zool.), the system of tubes and canals in sponges by means of which food and water are absorbed.





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... was a marvel of foresight and scientific organisation, from the motor kitchens that rumbled in their wake to the telescopic sights of the sharp-shooters, the innumerable machine-guns of the infantry, the supply of entrenching material, the preparations already ...
— Mr. Britling Sees It Through • H. G. Wells
... Ludwig II., king of Bavaria. As a reigning monarch, young, handsome, secluded in his habits and unmarried, he is of course exposed to all the inquisitive observation and exaggerated gossip which the feminine curiosity and masculine envy of a court and capital can supply—gossip which is eagerly listened to by the annual crowd of foreigners who spend a few days in Munich to visit the Pinakothek, listen to a Wagner opera, and catch, if possible, a glimpse of the romantic young king; and is by them carried home to find public circulation ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 31. October, 1873. • Various
... this house with what it contains, and as Walter will probably be anxious to have a memorial of my better days, I intend to beg you and my dear Mrs. Skene ... to have it [the picture] copied by such an artist as you should approve of, to supply the blank which must then be made on your hospitable walls with the shadow of a shade. If the opportunity should occur of copying the picture to your mind, I will be happy to have the copy as soon as ...
— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott
... planet a few centuries ago. The industrial arts are now prosecuted by machinery with a productiveness which enables one man to do the work formerly performed by hundreds, and which more than keeps up the supply with the demand. Conquests of natural forces are constantly making, and each one of them adds to the comfort and enlightenment of man. Men, practically, live a dozen lives such as those of the past in their single span of seventy years; and we are even finding means ...
— Holland - The History of the Netherlands • Thomas Colley Grattan
... my teeth. The same may be obsarved of the soap and combs, while a roll of court plaster don't take up much room. We'll be likely to need thread, buttons, and some patches for our clothes, though I've got a supply in my carpetbag. The quinine and pain-killer they may take if you can find a corner to squeeze 'em in. As to the underclothing, extra shirts, it depends whether there is room for 'em; but the boys mustn't ...
— Klondike Nuggets - and How Two Boys Secured Them • E. S. Ellis


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