supply | |
1. v. To provide (something), to make (something) available for use. | |
to supply money for the war | |
2. v. To furnish or equip with. | |
to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition | |
3. v. To fill up, or keep full. | |
Rivers are supplied by smaller streams. | |
4. v. To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of. | |
5. v. To serve instead of; to take the place of. | |
6. v. (intransitive) To act as a substitute. | |
7. v. 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 | |
8. n. The act of supplying. | |
supply and demand | |
9. n. 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. | |
10. n. (in the plural) provisions. | |
11. n. (mostly, in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures. | |
to vote supplies | |
12. n. Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute. | |
13. adv. Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness. | |