Supply meaning, definition and synonyms

1. Verb

To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial lake; -- often followed by with before the thing furnished; as, to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition.

2. Verb

To serve instead of; to take the place of.

3. Verb

To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of; as, to supply a pulpit.

4. Verb

To give; to bring or furnish; to provide; as, to supply money for the war.

5. Noun

The act of supplying; supplial.

6. Noun

That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want.

7. Noun

Auxiliary troops or reenforcements.

8. Noun

The food, and the like, which meets the daily necessities of an army or other large body of men; store; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the army was discontented for lack of supplies.

9. Noun

An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies.

10. Noun

A person who fills a place for a time; one who supplies the place of another; a substitute; esp., a clergyman who supplies a vacant pulpit.

11. Adjective

Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve.

12. Noun

How much sellers are prepared to provide.

The quantity of a good or service producers are willing and able to offer at different prices.

“Supply increased after production costs fell.”

13. Noun

offering goods and services for sale

Vocabulary classified under Economics