Definitions for supply

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supply sup·ply

Spelling: [suh-plahy]

IPA: /səˈplaɪ/

Supply is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in supply (lppsuy).

Definitions for supply

noun

1. the act of supplying, furnishing, providing, satisfying, etc.:
2. something that is supplied:
3. a quantity of something on hand or available, as for use; a stock or store:
4. Usually, supplies. a provision, stock, or store of food or other things necessary for maintenance:
5. Economics. the quantity of a commodity that is in the market and available for purchase or that is available for purchase at a particular price.
6. 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.
7. a person who fills a vacancy or takes the place of another, especially temporarily.
8. supplies, Obsolete. reinforcement (def 4).
9. Obsolete. aid.

adverb

1. in a supple manner or way; supplely.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking or requisite:
2. to furnish or provide (something wanting or requisite):
3. to make up, compensate for, or satisfy (a deficiency, loss, need, etc.):
4. to fill or occupy as a substitute, as a vacancy, a pulpit, etc.:

verb (used without object)

1. to fill the place of another, especially the pulpit of a church, temporarily or as a substitute:

Origin of supply

1325-75; (v.) Middle English sup(p)lien Middle French souplier, variant of soupleer ≪ Latin supplēre to fill up, equivalent to sup- sup- + plēre to fill (see Examples for supply

Walmart has gone even further, agreeing to extend this agreement to other crops in its supply chain.

It would seek to cut off the main Allied lines of supply and communication.

In Mosul, foreign fighters have left, the city is flooded with refugees and supply routes are cut off.

(b) What food substance do they supply in quantity to the diet?

The survivors needed hope for a brighter future, and Murakami sought to supply a salving narrative through his art.

It was not the first time he had known of such an effort on her part to supply him with food.

Future was determined to supply it using the very modes of expression it had turned its back on.

We carved off a supply from both, and saved the skins, and hove the rest overboard.

Moreover, it would have been easy, to supply the emendation.

When the interest of being in danger ceased, I had no other to supply its place.