supply.
To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
Meaning & usage
To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
to supply money for the war
To furnish or equip with.
to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition
To fill up, or keep full.
Rivers are supplied by smaller streams.
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.
to supply a pulpit
Where this word comes from
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.
The act of supplying.
An amount of something supplied.
A supply of good drinking water is essential.
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".
The market force that causes sellers to be both willing and able to sell a good or service, as measured by the amount of that good or service that is currently available to be bought at any given price point; the amount itself.
Supply and demand ebb and flow in a complex interplay.
The supply of timber to the region's mills was lower than expected this month, owing to transport problems posed by wildfires.
Provisions.
They are busy laying in supplies for the coming winter.
An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures.
to vote supplies
Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
Where this word comes from
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.
Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.
Where this word comes from
From supple + -ly.
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