supply Definition

supply
verb supplies, supplied, supplying

1a. To provide or furnish (something believed to be necessary);

Example: I'll supply the wine if you bring some beers
Thesaurus: furnish, replenish, provide, contribute, endow, purvey; Antonym: take.
1b. To provide or furnish them with it.

Example: The garden supplied them with all their vegetables
Thesaurus: furnish, stock, outfit, provide, endow.
Form: supply someone with something (also)
2. To satisfy (something, eg a need); to make up (something, eg a deficiency).
intr
3. Said especially of a teacher or minister: to act as a temporary substitute.

noun supplies

1. An act or instance of providing.
2. An amount provided, especially regularly.
3. An amount that can be drawn from and used; a stock.

Thesaurus: stock, hoard, accumulation, cache, fund, reserve.
4. Necessary food, equipment, etc that is stored, gathered, taken on a journey, etc.

Thesaurus: materials, matériel, equipment, necessities, rations, provisions, stores, provender.
Form: supplies
5. A source, eg of water, electricity, gas, etc.

Example: cut off their gas supply
6. econ.
The total amount of a commodity that is produced and available for sale. Compare demand noun 4.
7. Someone, especially a teacher or minister, who acts as a temporary substitute.

Derivative: supplier
noun

A person or company providing a commodity
Thesaurus: retailer, vendor, wholesaler, dealer, peddler.

Idiom: in short supply

See under short.

Etymology: 14c: from French soupleer, from Latin supplere to fill up.