supply

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Synonyms: supple, suppl, suppli

Antonyms: supple, suppl, suppli

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Verb

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

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.

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