Definition of SUPPLY

supply

Plural: supplies

Noun

  • an amount of something available for use
  • offering goods and services for sale
  • the activity of supplying or providing something
  • The act of supplying.
  • An amount of something supplied.
  • Provisions.
  • An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures.
  • Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.

Verb

Verb Forms: supplied, supplying, supplies

  • To furnish with what is needed; to provide.
  • give something useful or necessary to
  • circulate or distribute or equip with
    • "supply blankets for the beds"
  • give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
  • state or say further
  • To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
  • To furnish or equip with.
  • To fill up, or keep full.
  • To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
  • To serve instead of; to take the place of.
  • To act as a substitute.
  • To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of.

Adv

  • Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.

Examples

  • A supply of good drinking water is essential.
  • Rivers are supplied by smaller streams.
  • She said, "China has always had a freshwater supply problem with 20 percent of the world’s population but only 7 percent of its freshwater".
  • supply and demand
  • The Words With Friends app continued to supply challenging opponents.
  • to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition
  • to supply a pulpit
  • to supply money for the war
  • to vote supplies

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English supplien, borrowed from Old French soupleer, souploier, from Latin suppleo (“to fill up, make full, complete, supply”).
The Middle English spelling was modified to conform to Latin etymology.

Antonyms

demand, recall

Scrabble Score: 13

supply: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
supply: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
supply: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

supply: valid Words With Friends Word