supply
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Definitions ofsupply
- The act of supplying.
Example: "supply and demand"
- An amount of something supplied.
Example: "A supply of good drinking water is essential."
- (in the plural) provisions.
- (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures.
Example: "to vote supplies"
- Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
- To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
Example: "to supply money for the war"
- To furnish or equip with.
Example: "to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition"
- To fill up, or keep full.
Example: "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.
Example: "to supply a pulpit"
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