Definition of Supply

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Supply

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.

To serve instead of; to take the place of.

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.

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

The act of supplying; supplial.

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

Auxiliary troops or reenforcements.

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.

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

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.

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

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Supply Quotations

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
W. C. Fields

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Supply always comes on the heels of demand.
Robert Collier

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
Fred Allen

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.
Norman Borlaug

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.
Norman Borlaug

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.
Al Capone

There is a supply for every demand.
Florence Scovel Shinn

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Supply Translations

supply in Afrikaans is inlewer, lewer, voorraad, aflewer
supply in Dutch is aanvoer, bezorging
supply in French is livraison, fournir, pourvoir, provision, munir
supply in German is eingeben, versorgen, speisen, liefern, beschaffen
supply in Italian is fornitura, rifornimento, provvedere, fornire
supply in Latin is ministro, exorno, suggero, praebeo, copia
supply in Norwegian is levere
supply in Portuguese is fonte
supply in Spanish is suministro, suministrar, reten, proveer

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